The Fight Over Open Source ‘Leeches’

InfoWorld reports on the fight over open source ‘leeches’ — companies that use open source technology but don’t give back to the open source community. While some view such organizations as a tragedy of the commons, others view the notion of ‘freeloaders’ as a relic of open source’s Wild West era, when coding was a higher calling and free software a religion.

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