Comments on: Industry veterans bet on open-source model

A former Microsoft executive and other tech bigwigs fund SourceLabs, an open-source start-up focused on maintenance and support.

[zaz.net]

Nothing seems new and exciting about this

Really this is doing only part of what RedHat and others are already doing. Novell is also working to provide a stable integrated set of products on top of Linux. Sun Microsystems is even moving into the Open Source world with plans to make it's Solaris OS Open Source and it's continued support for Solaris on X86.

I am glad new companies are coming in and doing this with unassociated products and without marketing their own products. This seems like a good bet for some Open Source projects to increase their use, without being tied in to a specific distribution set of Linux.

I'll be impressed if and when they reach "critical mass"; having enough customers to cover all their expenses and turn a profit.

[lalloo1]

The End of "OpenSource"? may be not!

As large and small companies plunder the open source resources and package them for individual financial gains, it may be justified as progress of times it nonetheless is an end of an intellectual era where the idea was to have "productive fun".

I am not against progress but should not we set up a fund to promote the development of a continuous stream of innovations that eventually led to the formation of this business model? Let's be responsible.

[Nael]

Why is Apache 2.53 missing

From this package? Are you saying that 2.53 is not stable or is a security risk by supporting 1.xx line?