[...] 451 CAOS Theory - A blog for the enterprise open source community wrote an interesting post today on How do you define ‘commercial open source’?Here’s a quick excerpt Adobe has announced that it is sponsoring the SQLite public domain database engine project by joining Mozilla and Symbian on the SQLite consortium. The news is interesting in that it balances Google’s recent sponsorship of efforts to support Photoshop on Linux, while it also raises an interesting question about Microsoft’s attempt to define commercial open source. SQLite has seen some success recently as the chosen database for Google’s Android project. It also replaced MySQL as the default da [...]

[...] Sweetness & Light wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Adobe has announced that it is sponsoring the SQLite public domain database engine project by joining Mozilla and Symbian on the SQLite consortium. The news is interesting in that it balances Google’s recent sponsorship of efforts to support Photoshop on Linux, while it also raises an interesting question about Microsoft’s attempt to define commercial open source. SQLite has seen some success recently as the chosen database for Google’s Android project. It also replaced MySQL as the default da [...]

[...] 451 CAOS Theory wrote an interesting post today on How do you define ‘commercial open source’?Here’s a quick excerptSQLite has seen some success recently as the chosen database for Google’s Android project…. [...]

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[...] Let me say that this could be the beginning of a fairly major shift for Microsoft, a change that most feel is long overdue. As usual though, the devil is in the details. Is this announcement fluff or substance? The first major hole I see is that the “covenant not to sue open source developers”, along with some other pieces, only pertain to “non-commercial” distribution/implementation. This makes room for a lot of gray area on how you define commercial use. Also, from what I can tell, the patent provision terms discussed in the announcement are not compatible with most Open Source licenses. That being said, it’s also a far cry from Microsoft calling Linux a cancer, so it’s certainly a step in the right direction. The real driver here, however, is almost certainly customer demand and a landscape that is shifting underneath the feet of Microsoft. I think the 451 group puts it well: [...]

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