Success Threatens Open Source Ethic
Popularity may be a menace as well as a benefit for the open sourcesoftware movement, according to an analyst at Forrester Research in Boston, Mass.
In a report titled "Vendors Refine Their Open Source Strategies/The Risk of Subverting Open Source Freedoms Mounts," Senior Analyst Michael Goulde cautions the open source community about the corrupting influence profit-seeking software players could have on its ecosystem.
"As major software suppliers adopt open source software as part of their strategies, the risk increases that the goals of the open source movement -- user freedom to use, modify, and distribute software -- will be undermined," Goulde wrote in the report's Executive Summary.
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