A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Source Companies

Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by davexunit on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @08:45AM (#7472970)

>The open source movement arose when developers realized they could create software in a community-driven environment, letting everyone add knowledge in return for sharing in the collective product.

The author is simplifying history here to serve his own purpose. The open source movement was born out of the free software movement that had been around for 15 years prior. This rebranding was done in order to market free software to businesses by removing the ethical and political arguments and replacing them with technical ones.

>The tenet of open source has always been to give away the “open core” for free, and then charge for additional features.

I disagree. I don't see many admirers of "open core" model. The community was so happy that MySQL became "open core" that distributions have started switching to MariaDB.

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Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by e15ctr0n on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @12:47PM (#7474623)

The term "open source" was created by Eric Raymond (ESR)[1] on 8 February 1998 when Mozilla was in the process of making its source code public. This has been described in detail in the book 'Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Open_source

[2] http://www.catb.org/esr/open-source.html

[3] http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/raymond2.html

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Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by tbrownaw on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:56AM (#7474244)

This rebranding was done in order to market free software to businesses by removing the ethical and political arguments and replacing them with technical ones.

I thought the rebranding was driven by the Free Software people casting out those with insufficient revolutionary fervor.

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