Definition of open source

Zvezdan Petkovic zvezdan at CS.WM.EDU
Sun Nov 7 04:44:22 UTC 2004


On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:28:39PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Zvezdan Petkovic writes:
>  > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:59:06AM -0500, James Harrell wrote:
>  > > believe that the time has come for Commercial Open Source
>  > 
>  > Commercial Open Source is an oxymoron.
> 
> What do you call Red Hat Enterprise Linux, then?  Better to say:
> 
> Proprietary Open Source is an oxymoron.
> 

I agree.  The original poster's definition of Commercial Open Source
falls under this category, though.  Hence my comment.

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Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan at cs.wm.edu>
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