Enterprise Sponsors and the Open Source Community: An Uneasy Symbiosis?
The open source community is not quite as free-wheeling as it was a decade ago. Now, industry titans like IBM and even one-time nemesis Microsoft are part of the ecosystem, blurring the lines between open and proprietary models.
Not many years ago, the open source software ecosystem and proprietary models might have been thought of as incompatible.
About 10 years ago, though, the two systems began converging. IBM began to support Linux, providing what many analysts described as “legitimacy” to the fledging operating system among enterprise customers and developers.
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