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'Open-source' Product is the new buzz word

5 pointsby amcdnlalmost 9 years ago
Is it just me or is there a LOT of companies claiming to have open-source products that aren&#x27;t REALLY &#x27;open-source&#x27;? I feel likes its became the new buzz word for any software company building a product.<p>Lets take this case: Neo4j is a open-source graph database with commercial features&#x2F;support. They recently developed a lot of new official drivers ( about time! ). The .NET one in particular used the 4.6 framework, some community members forked it and wanted to collaborate on adding support for .NET&#x27;s new &#x27;open-source&#x27; ( LOL ) core framework.<p>A awesome community member added supported for that, he posted the fork and was gathering feedback when one of the maintainers said: &quot;You may personally be happy not to expect official support but if we host such code or make any such releases, someone somewhere will expect it to be supported.&quot;. If thats your attitude why EVEN POST THE PROJECT ON GITHUB?<p>Case in point: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neo4j&#x2F;neo4j-dotnet-driver&#x2F;issues&#x2F;52#issuecomment-221667996

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