Published at LXer:
An important lesson here is corporate involvement is always fraught with peril. Today's friend of FOSS is tomorrow's enemy: through acquisition (Sun/Oracle), change of leadership (SCO), or desperation. There are an awful lot of FOSS fans who think FOSS needs big-time corporate involvement to succeed, and big-time support from rich Santas like Mark Shuttleworth. This is a cop-out...
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