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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