-=PCTechTalk=- Interesting article

 http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39194786,00.htm


IT giants accused of exploiting open source

 

By Ingrid Marson, Special to ZDNet 

01 June 2005

 

Major companies that sell open source software have been accused by a top EU 
official of treating open source developers as mere subcontractors.

 

A senior figure at the European Commission launched an outspoken attack on 
several major American IT firms on Monday, accusing them of exerting too much 
influence on the progress of the open source community. 

Jesús Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information 
Society and Media Directorate General, said that big companies such as IBM, HP 
and Sun are just using the open source community as subcontractors rather than 
encouraging the community to develop independent commercial products. 

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