Can Open Src Projects be Acquired?
"Marshall W. Van Alstyne" <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:34:52 -0400
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In case anyone missed this from Slashdot... Posted by <http://cmdrtaco.net/>CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 26, @11:11AM from the i-just-don't-get-this-one dept. <http://startup.blogscorp.com>prostoalex writes "Can an open source project be acquired? ZDNet's Between The Lines <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1306>says yes, one just did. Software startup JasperSoft acquired Sourceforge-based project <http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/>JasperReports, which involved acquiring the copyrights and hiring the lead developer for the project." I guess the point he tries to make is that the new corporate overloads can essentially have a free and non-free version of the code, and more or less orphan the free version. The problem of course is that if the non-free version gets good, others will simply fork.