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Why Open Source Companies Need to Give Up Control

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Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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Are open source companies really open source? Sharing the code isn't enough: you need to have a vibrant community forming around the code. And that is unlikely to happen if the company insists on owning all the copyright, even for external contributions. Could the way forward be the creation of more foundations along the lines of Mozilla Foundation, Eclipse Foundation or Symbian Foundation?

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