Personally, I think that the "lite"ing of open source is really not open source at all. It means> Cloudscape is the IBM supported version... if you care about > IBM support, you'd want this version. I believe they're doing it this > way do they can control what they need to support.
Probably so. That really just makes sense, and it seems to be a pretty standard model for companies looking to make money from code which is nominally "free." Release it to the world, let it develop as open-source, and then occassionally take a snap-shot of the code, do any clean-up / value-add stuff, and then release it as a commercial product. Of course the interesting thing is that anybody could do the exact same thing, even "Bob's Screen Door Repair and Relational Databases, LLC." So what IBM is really selling in a sense is their reputation (versus Bob, for example).
closed communities, seperate forks, its unteniable and results in something more resembling
"shared source". Plus its just damn confusing and makes for bad branding.
Of course this is my personal opinion only.
-Andy
TTYL,
Phil
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