Hi all<br>Not strictly speaking related to GPL3 but still an interesting comment someone made to me today about OpenSource in general. He is the MD of a company who has just been acquired by another (synergies of codebases, filling gaps, etc). Before the purchase they were working on an opensource version of their software. He did say that some aspects were not open but the majority was.
<br>He saw it as very valuable insurance policy in case the new parent company decided to drop their software; they could just go and work on the OpenSource version instead. It seems the experience of Freehand developers when Adobe dropped that software had made him a little worried.
<br>Hope that's not too off topic. Oh, I've not mentioned names bec I'm not sure how I stand on discussing work interviews when they're not actually published as news.<br>Kind regards<br>Tim<br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Tim Smith<br>IT and Open Source Journalist<br>IT Support and installation<br><a href="http://www.computeractive.co.uk">www.computeractive.co.uk</a><br><a href="http://www.itfreedom.co.uk">www.itfreedom.co.uk</a>
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