A win for the OSS philosophy

A win for the OSS philosophy

Posted Mar 3, 2005 12:43 UTC (Thu) by binkley (guest, #8537)
Parent article: IBM's latest gift to the community

Normally when a company decides to deep six a project, that's that. No more software, no more downloads, no more nothing. And the restrictive commercial licensing leaves users hosed. At least with the OSS licensing model, users can salvage the source code and pick up the project if they really want to. By moving the good and the bad to SourceForge, IBM is letting these projects continue in some fashion rather than simply locking up the sources and throwing away the key. It's not a good situation, but it is better than what usually happens under these circumstances.

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