Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 18th Jul 2008 19:16 UTC, submitted by dockingbay94
At the heart of every networking device is an operating system that enables traffic flow. In the case of networking vendor Juniper, that operating system for the past ten years has been JUNOS, a network operating system with its roots in the open source FreeBSD operating system.
Juniper has updated JUNOS every 90 days since 1998.
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Depends on how you define opensource and conforming to the licence. One only needs to look at the flack Apple got for the fact that they didn't bend over backwards to provide assistance to KDE developers to get the changes merged from webkit into khtml.
For some, the mere presence of source code is enough to satisfy their definition of 'open source' whilst others claim that for something to be truly open source, it has to include the active participation of the said company in the development in a community like atmosphere.
Just for the record (I know, this is a tired old topic), there's a widely accepted and quite unambiguous definition of "open source software", if by "widely accepted" I may mean the one found in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
Of course, I won't deny that everyone is free to invent and use other definitions, but they should warn about their non-mainstream definition if they use it in articles, blog entries and the like. Doing otherwise would be misleading and bad stile.