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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 17, 2011 21:51 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by JoeBuck
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

And because NIHism within Sun (see for example the gstreamer stuff that got worked into go-oo and then, months (years?) later got independently redone inside Sun).

And obscenely difficult patch acceptance requirements iirc.

mmeeks has a number of very informative articles on the subject from the last year or two (http://people.gnome.org/~michael/)


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