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Commercial Open-Source Software. Took me a very long time to figure out what that stood for.
by kgwxd 6y ago
Commercial Open-Source Software. Took me a very long time to figure out what that stood for.
- curtis3389 6y agoI hate it when sites put their About link below an infinite scroller.
- iandinwoodie 6y agoI went on the same search. For those interest in formal definition: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software (reference: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03132-8_2 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03132-8_...).
- kthejoker2 6y ago"owned" is definitely not the right verb there. "Exclusively commercially supported because there's no demand for a competitor" ...?