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'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab'


Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ComputerWorld: Essentially, all software is built using open source. By Synopsys' count, 96% of all codebases contain open-source software. Lately, though, there's been a very disturbing trend. A company will make its program using open source, make millions fr...

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ComputerWorld: Essentially, all software is built using open source. For those of you who aren't open-source licensing experts, this means developers can no longer use Redis' code. Again, you might never have heard of these companies or their programs, but each is worth, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of dollars.

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