Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta. He has worked in enterprise Java for nearly 10 years. Before Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.
Commercial open source software has arrived. There have been commercial
sponsors of open source projects for a long time, but the recent spate of
high-price (for open source, at least) acquisitions of companies with open
source products at the core of their business has made a splash in the
technology industry. In addition, Sun’s convulsions into the open source
world have left the Java landscape decisively in open source territory.
Is this recent trend toward commercial open source good for open source
software? Is it good for the Java developer? Is the utopian spirit of the
open source movement about to get crushed by greed, profit seeking, and evil
corporate maneuvering? Well…let’s see.
Open source software has had a clearly beneficial impact on the tools we use
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Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta. He has worked in enterprise Java for nearly 10 years. Before Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.
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