[h2o-discuss] RealNames mixing open and proprietary

["Robert S. Thau" <rst@ai.mit.edu>]

Robert S. Thau writes:
 > wendy@seltzer.com writes:
 >  > Where does this practice fit within the "open" lexicon?  Is a
 >  > similar tying arrangement the real reason why any commercial
 >  > enterprise offers open source code?  Thoughts?

Ooops... three words missing:

 > It's a reason why a lot of them are doing it, particularly
 > johnny-come-lately bandwagon jumpers like RealNames.  BUT NOT ALL. 
 > For instance,
 > there are web consulting companies like Digital Creations and Ars
 > Digita who release their internally-developed toolkits (Zope and the
 > ArsDigita Community System respectively) for general use.  

Digital Creations and Ars Digita are not johnny-come-lately bandwagon
jumpers.  Resolution for the day:  proofread.  Sigh...

rst