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Author Topic: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com  (Read 6747 times)

zridling

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Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
« on: January 26, 2010, 06:17 AM »
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Red Hat launches OpenSource.com. Should be interesting.

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Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2010, 12:06 PM »
Following Sun's lead?

zridling

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Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2010, 06:56 AM »
Sun's gone now, isn't it, since the EU approved Oracle's acquisition of it?

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Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 07:36 AM »
Does it matter? Didn't Sun start this when they were Sun and not an oracle subsidiary?

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Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
« Reply #4 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 seems to be a recent phenomenon.

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Re: Red Hat launches OpenSource.com
« Reply #5 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.