Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register)

At The Register, Matt Asay discusses the effects that the increasing number of corporate-sponsored open source projects have on development. "There was a brief honeymoon when Google, Facebook and other tech giants were able to release open-source code without commercial involvement, but this didn't last long, with startups setting out to monetise projects such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Storm."

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