Companies drive open source success?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 21, 2008 9:09 AM EDT
ZDNet Blogs; By Joe Brockmeier
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Increasingly, people are finding that much of open source development is actually being directed and supported by companies like IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and others — rather than being the exclusive domain of unpaid volunteers. Though, the effect of the volunteer contributors should not be overlooked, either. It was the volunteers, early adopters, and early commercial supporters that put FOSS on the radar.

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Companies drive open source success? ColonelPanik 3 1,042 Dec 21, 2008 8:44 PM

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