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Free and Open Source S/W
9 Jul 2012
#26846
What's the Truth about Open Source
Sorting out the True from the False in Current Thinking

On mission to dispel (or confirm) some of the current myths concerning open source, Wenjia Zhao of Forbes tackles the subject with sufficient candor to admit his own level of misinformation. Zhao consulted Karl Fogel of Open Souce Initiative, to whom he put these questions:

  • Open source means that the source is open to view
  • Open source software is free
  • Open source software cannot be commercial
  • Open source software is crowd-sourced and vice versa

Fogel confirmed that one of the "myths" is true, the other three false. Test your open source belief system against the expert.
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