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In acquiring Merrill Lynch, must Bank of America open source its software?
Lost in the rubble of the teetering titans of finance is an open question: what will happen to the open-source software that they have heavily modified and upon which many have built core business applications?
It’s a nontrivial question. Bank of America just acquired Merrill Lynch. Merrill Lynch was a heavy adopter of and modifier of [...]
Open source after the M&A honeymoon
InformationWeek’s Charles Babcock takes a fascinating look into the pros and cons of open-source mergers and acquisitions, and comes up with some interesting perspectives in the process. In sum, if you want to acquire an open-source software company, you’d better be very clear about what you’re buying, and how you’re going to pull value from [...]
A New Model: Open Source Software After It’s Acquired
Roy Fielding, chief scientist at Day Software and co-founder of the original Apache Web server project, is the kind of guy who oozes cred in the open source community. He was lead architect on the HTTP specification and described Representational State Transfer–we know it simply as REST today–as a development method in his doctoral dissertation [...]