40% of all stable Free Software made by "commercial" developers. [LWN.net]

40% of all stable Free Software made by "commercial" developers.

Posted Oct 17, 2009 10:09 UTC (Sat) by Fats (subscriber, #14882)
In reply to: 40% of all stable Free Software made by "commercial" developers. by Wol
Parent article: A new open source foundation

"The distinction should be "open" and "commercial" (and maybe not even that!)"

No the distinction is between open source and closed source. The other orthogonal distinction is commercial versus non-commercial. You can have the four combinations:
open source, commercial: RHEL etc.
closed source, commercial: MS etc.
open source, non-commercial: majority of sourceforge ?
close source, non-commercial: card ware, freeware, xxxware, etc.

greets,
Staf.

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40% of all stable Free Software made by "commercial" developers.

Posted Oct 19, 2009 13:31 UTC (Mon) by txwikinger (subscriber, #57821) [Link]

Well.. the distinction should be between free and non-free software (free as liberty!). It does not help to look at "open" source code if you can never use the learned because now the developer is "tainted" and might infringe copyright law.