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Building a $36.5 million business with open source software

39 pointsby paltmanover 13 years ago

5 comments

chargrilledover 13 years ago
This article is just plain awful:<p>"- Avoid the General Product License (GPL)." in the introduction sets the tone. It's an article about Open Source Software and you don't even know the name of one of the biggest licenses?<p>"Coming from backgrounds primarily in enterprise software, which meant Microsoft® .NET and C#, as well as Oracle and Java™ technology, it was obvious that we needed to choose something different. No one wanted to spend money on licensing and managing compliance to licensing."<p>Java has a _huge_ OSS ecosystem and the JVM is free as in beer. The idea that their technical choice came down to "Python or Ruby" seems to me like they'd already decided to go with one and then had to rationalise.<p>I stopped reading after that.
harrisreynoldsover 13 years ago
I didn't know Developerworks still existed. After this article, I wish it didn't.
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skrebbelover 13 years ago
Wait - is this special? Don't hundreds of companies do this?
aidenn0over 13 years ago
Judging by their track record, the fact that AOL paid $36.5M for a company doesn't mean the company was worth that...
aleccoover 13 years ago
&#62; Approach the community with an attitude of contributing back.<p>Refreshing.