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Mueller: IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community

Mueller: IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community

Posted Apr 6, 2010 18:12 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Mueller: IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community by chithanh
Parent article: Mueller: IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community

So, Florian Mueller is actually full of sh*t when he says that IBM is breaking their promise. It doesn't help your credibility when you lie in the title of your article.


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Mueller: IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community

Posted Apr 6, 2010 19:23 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (subscriber, #52523) [Link]

Hercules' commercial version is the same as its OpenSource version. They just sell support.

Mueller: IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community

Posted Apr 6, 2010 21:44 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

Don't know if that's true or not, but I don't get that from the article. He says "commercialize" which implies something different than "sell support". Since we don't have the original letter, we can't say for sure what they told IBM that pissed them off. Until that is made public, I'd say it is too soon to pass judgment on IBM.

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