Hi, On 1/24/08, Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which doesn't paint a rosy picture for the future of CUPS under Apple's > ownership. A pity for CUPS now being de-facto for many distributions. > > The same fate could await MySQL under its new owner, Sun Microsystems, > despite their contributions to free/open source software. In that event > we have a saviour on PostgreSQL, at least. > > I applaud commercial contributions to free software but I can't help > thinking that the acquisition of existing projects by commerce results > in long-term damage to them - my opinion only.
Which brings up an interesting question - are there any clear examples of FLOSS that has thrived under commercial ownership? (For example, the BerkleyDB folks when I spoke to them last year seemed extremely pleased with how things were working out under Oracle.) And similarly, are there specific examples of FLOSS that has knowingly been killed by new commercial owners? Seems to me this could make some useful reference material for those looking to "sell out" in the future. A. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
