Big Question (Answered): "Can an Open Source Project be Closed to the Public?"

September 9, 2011

big-question-150.pngScott Fulton’s earlier post, What’s This I Hear About Proprietary Open Source?, raised some interesting points about most people’s idea of open sourced software. How open is open enough? If a project is closed to the public, can it really be called an open source project?

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