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Title: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
Post by: zridling on January 26, 2010, 06:17 AM

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Red Hat launches OpenSource.com (http://opensource.com/). Should be interesting.

Title: Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
Post by: parkint on January 26, 2010, 12:06 PM

Following Sun's lead?

Title: Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
Post by: zridling on January 28, 2010, 06:56 AM

Sun's gone now, isn't it, since the EU approved Oracle's acquisition of it?

Title: Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
Post by: Josh on January 28, 2010, 07:36 AM

Does it matter? Didn't Sun start this when they were Sun and not an oracle subsidiary?

Title: Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
Post by: Tuxman on January 28, 2010, 05:45 PM

Oh, a sense of irony. .com means commercial, according to all known TLD legends. Now guess what it is about?
Open source sellout (http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/) seems to be a recent phenomenon.

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Title: Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
Post by: zridling on January 28, 2010, 06:15 PM

Seems to be the trend. Let the community build and bring your app to maturity, then buy them out for a billion.