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Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source"


From: Andreas Röhler
Subject: Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source"
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:13:31 +0200
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Every major company/project that _became_ free software or centered
around its business went down.  StarOffice went into Sun, became
OpenOffice (and Sun tried to make SunOS Open Source as well) and went
down with Sun.  SuSE was taken on by Novell, and Novell went down.
Symbian became Open Source, and went down within a year, while Qt
apparently remains Open Source even though its developers were acquired
by Nokia.  But Nokia switches to Windows and sold off Qt licensing
business.


All these companies have been in decline when starting FLOSS.
Maybe in an essay of sourcing unpayed labor.
Let's see how Oracle behaves.




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