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Open sourcing code doesn't necessarily mean people will rush to it
John C. Dvorak wrote a nice layman's introduction to open source this week on PCMag.com. But he makes at least one big false assumption. Dvorak says he'd love to see old code open sourced. Some examples he sought, such as CP/M, CP/M-86, and GEM, have already been open source for years. Caldera, after buying the intellectual property of the former Digital Research from Novell, released just about everything that wasn't directly related to DR-DOS, some of it as GPL, and some under other licenses. The results have hardly been earth shattering.
Dave Farquhar