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Donnerstag April 07, 2005

"IBM calls for IP generosity"
""A big part of your power is to have your people work with the communities and donate some of your intellectual property to those communities so they can get better. Then you build proprietary offerings on top of the open source platform," he said. "Those proprietary offerings at some point will lose their value as proprietary offerings. Then there probably will be more value donating it to an open source community, and on and on and on."

The executive isn't alone in his views. On Tuesday, Sun president Jonathan Schwartz described what he called the "participation age" based on open source software and its ability to draw new programmers and new economies into the computing realm.

And Novell, which bought its way into the open source realm with the acquisitions of Ximian and SuSE Linux, also believes in a hybrid approach. Novell executives have described open source software as a rising water level; proprietary software above that level can be sold for a time before eventually being swamped."

The full article can be found here.
( Apr 07 2005, 03:02:28 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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Guess I miss the open source versions of Websphere or DB2...

Like many large companeis today IBm talks a good game on the OpenSource business but really wants everyone ELSE to do it. I seem to remember a blog where Jonnathan had an exec from another large tech company suggest "Just lie to the slashdot crowd. Everyone does it."

Gesendet von 192.18.37.43 am April 08, 2005 at 01:50 AM CEST #

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