Understanding open-source licenses (ZDNet)

[Posted November 2, 2002 by corbet]

ZDNet is carrying a Gartner Group pronouncement about open source licensing. "By 2005, warranties and additional maintenance for at least the 100 most-popular open-source software products will be offered by commercial software vendors, service providers, or insurance companies (0.7 probability). In the meantime, users can minimize any 'fitness for purpose' risks through evaluation and testing, and by only using production releases of well-known, mature products from reputable distributors."

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