Graffiti & Open-Source: The tale of Banksy and the good and the bad open source

This is a good post, but I have one bone to pick:<p><i>After talking a bit, this person starts giving me grief for working in a closed source solution. I asked him what database solution he used. He happened to use a GPL licensed Open-Source database on which the company that owns the trademark has all the commits. It’s that kind of read only Open-Source.</i><p>In all fairness, it's a forkable kind of open-source; think the Jenkins / Hudson split.<p>(When you're building your company or product on something <i>completely</i> closed-source, you're kinda screwed if they go away.)

Banksy's <i>Exit Through the Gift Shop</i> is a fantastic movie about how art is PRed up to stratospheric prices. I interpreted it as a tongue in cheek satire on himself and other street artists.