Brian Prentice

I have long held the view that the Open Source license agreement has been one of the most disruptive ideas to have hit the IT industry. The core concept of providing non-discriminatory modification and re-distribution rights within a copyright agreement has been, and continues to be, as great an innovation as any single piece of [...]

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Have you been noticing that just when an open source project starts building some momentum – things like mySQL, WebTide or Spring – along comes some cashed up proprietary vendor to buy it ? Even the venture capitalists are in on the act! Companies like New Enterprise Associates, Accel, and Benchmark Capital – organizations noted [...]

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