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The New Era of Big Company forks.

The New Era of Big Company forks.

Posted Feb 8, 2010 15:01 UTC (Mon) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642)
Parent article: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community

It seems to me we've entered a new era of FLOSS development. Big companies that are otherwise supportive of FLOSS in many situations (i.e., Google), can afford to maintain a public fork for as long as they wish. I've written a blog post about this problem.


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