"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So, I suppose you can give us ten examples of thriving companies based
>> on private forks of dead open-source projects?
> MySQL? (sorry couldn't resist).
Uh, no, because that was never a genuine open-source (as in
community-owned, community-driven) project --- MySQL AB has always
owned it --- lock, stock, barrel and every single major developer.
Plastering a GPL license on the top of the code tree doesn't
make it into a community project.
Illustra/Ingres would be a valid counterexample in our own historical
tradition, except that they've thrown in the towel recently IIRC?
I'm not aware of too many more. Like I said, if you want to establish
this as the typical case, name ten examples.
regards, tom lane
