Graffiti & Open-Source: The tale of Banksy and the good and the bad open source(writings.nunojob.com)
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Graffiti & Open-Source: The tale of Banksy and the good and the bad open source
http://writings.nunojob.com/2012/05/My-Contribution-to-JSConf-2012-The-Good-And-The-Bad-Open-Source.html
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Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fantastic movie about how art is PRed up to stratospheric prices. I interpreted it as a tongue in cheek satire on himself and other street artists.
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After talking a bit, this person starts giving me grief for working in a closed source solution. I asked him what database solution he used. He happened to use a GPL licensed Open-Source database on which the company that owns the trademark has all the commits. It’s that kind of read only Open-Source.
In all fairness, it's a forkable kind of open-source; think the Jenkins / Hudson split.
(When you're building your company or product on something completely closed-source, you're kinda screwed if they go away.)