As Dimdim Loses Independence, Some Doors Close, and Others Open

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 7, 2011 7:51 PM EDT
OStatic; By Sam Dean
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In the wake of the news that open source online conferencing and collaboration provider Dimdim is being swallowed up by cloud CRM provider Salesforce, one conclusion seems clear: Many long-standing open source applications are low hanging fruit for powerful proprietary software companies to acquire and metamorphosize for their own purposes. It's easy to be lulled into thinking that this is happening at the same rate that it used to, but the rate at which well-known open source technologies are being flipped under the wing of proprietary software companies is in fact picking up pace exponentially. In Dimdim's case, there are positive and negative aspects of the buyout.

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