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After looking at the blogs header image of a guy with a plunger, an anonymous friend noted:
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Im sure these geniuses at PacketTrapposted this manifestoabout why commercial open source is no good as part a misguided marketing attempt, but I feel it necessary to comment on just how stupid this is and why this kind of thing leads to a companys ilure.
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With more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience spanning from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs, he is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of MuleSoft, and serves as managing director for Hardy Way. He also happens to be a U.S. patent holder and a workaholic. Technology is his best friend and mortal enemy.
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toilet plunger Open source leech rails against open source companies,The CEOs argument essentially says commercial open source isnt ir because he cant take all the code (he highlights GPL products) and recast it as his own.
PacketTrap believes that the commercialization of open source by the POSS vendors such as Hyperic and GroundWork Open, however, skillfully undermines the original goal of open source projects to develop strong software solutions without the negative effects of commercial vendor profit motive.
Dave RosenbergDave Rosenberg dishes up Software, Interrupted with more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of Mulesoft, and previously held a wide range of technical and marketing positions. He is an adviser to DataStax, IT Database, and Puppet Labs. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.Disclosure. E-mail Dave [email protected].
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In Software, Interrupted, Dave Rosenberg discusses disruption in the software market, as well as the products and services that keep business technology norms in perpetual flux.
If Hyperic is the cash register of open source, I guess that makes these guys the toilet.
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ThePDFIntegrating Open Source in Commercial Solutions: Does PacketTrap Have the Right Model? is a great example of why you need PR help when you are a young company. Most people arent smart entoilet plunger Open source leech rails against open source companiesough to edit their own stupidity.
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Its interesting that he thinks that these companies are undermining the spirit of OSS when his company takes a bunch of OSS components, aggregates them and pretends like they did something new and exciting.
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He also notes how his company is part of the community, yet doesnt state what projects the staff contributes to, nor could I find anything that they had open-sourced themselves.
