How Open Is "Open"? – Industry Luminaries Join the Debate

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 28, 2007 5:08 AM EDT
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Nat Torkington raised this week the very real question of whether the term "open source" is now completely meaningless, in the sense that its meaning has now been sucked out of it by companies that purport to be open source yet don't allow users to feely download, compile, and use the software in question. One example Torkington cites is SugarCRM, whose license he describes as "a questionably modified OSI-approved license.

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Great question, tough to answer. dinotrac 0 723 Feb 28, 2007 5:28 AM

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