A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

A Microsoft blogger on Open Source. The customer responses are 
interesting and show how real-world consumers of proprietary software 
believe Open Source might be beneficial to them (wiki-ing MSDN makes 
lots of sense):

        http://weblogs.asp.net/jledgard/archive/2004/08/20/217992.aspx


Businessweek are the latest to discover the joys of the BSD license 
after Microsoft and AdTI:

        http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/23/1720241

One point to add to Linus Torvalds' very diplomatic position on Apple 
using BSD rather than Linux: when NeXT started developing NeXTSTEP - 
which later became Apple's MacOSX - in the second half of the 1980s, 
BSD was the only game in town. Linux wouldn't be started for another 
three or four years, so NeXT didn't have a choice.


Article on "Going Open Source", focussing on Opening existing projects 
rather than starting new ones but interesting as it's addressed to 
managers at commercial outfits:

        http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/0715259

- Rob.