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Submission + - Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?

An anonymous reader writes: IBM, Sun, Novell, and Red Hat all have a very significant open source element to their businesses. In addition to these juggernauts, there is growing investment in open source models. Will money flowing into open source destroy its roots? Mark Hinkle just posted an editorial asking the questions Is Commercialization Killing Open Source? in which he comments on "opensville" and gives some actual investmet data, and a lot of inisght into the growing trend in "open source commercialization".

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