There is value in source code, whether you want it or not

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Dec 21, 2007 4:00 AM EDT
The 451 Group; By Matthew Aslett
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A common question you hear from proprietary vendors when dismissing open source alternatives is “how many customers actually want access to the code anyway?” It is a question I put to an open source software vendor myself earlier this week while playing devil’s advocate. The response - that the right to modify the source code is more important than actually doing it - is well known, but it is worth repeating in the light of recent events surrounding the Mindquarry open source collaboration project.

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