Lessons learned from open source Xara's failure

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 13, 2007 11:34 AM
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On October 11, 2005, proprietary software maker Xara announced its plans to open the source code to its flagship vector graphics package Xara Xtreme, and with the help of community developers port it to Linux. Today, two years later, the project is stagnant and on the verge of irrelevance, primarily because the company couldn't figure out how to work with the open source community.

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