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The fight over open source 'leeches': Open source is supposed to be all about community, but as commercial open source becomes the norm, fewer developers are giving back. Is that hurting open source?

Date: June 1, 2009

Author: Bill Snyder

QUOTE: There's long been a tension within the open source community between those who have seen it as a movement and those who believe it is a business.

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• Amazon.com
• Apache Software Foundation
• Bank of America Corporation (B of A)
• Cisco Systems
• Google
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• Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
• Sun Microsystems
• Verizon Communications
• Yahoo!

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