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Lots of young companies / start-ups are only interested by open source as long as it helps them to create value and be bought by a larger and often closed source proprietary company. They only focus on the economical and legal aspect of open source and somehow disregard other key aspects of open source like : social/community, ethics, political/governance, etc. Lots of recent example (OpenOffice/Oracle, Java/Oracle, MySQL/Oracle, Zimbra/VMWare, ...) can be studied. Most of those open source projects are flaky at best and have to design an emergency plan (think disaster recovery here) in order to ... survive. The long term effects are linked to the brand damage those case produce on the Open Source brand...

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This is true, and it's mostly Sun's (OOO and Java) fault, and later the evil Oracle.

I think this article mixes in too much philosophy ... that's not really the reason for these. Sun never planned to open-source anything, they only did it to try to keep themselves alive ... and failed, and now the dogs clean up the mess.