Re: Is the proprietary camp winning ?

Mano wrote:
> But could Yahoo still afford to pay so much if they release the source code
> of every tool they write! They have to necessarily hold back certain things
> which have strategic value.

They use freebsd, qmail - various other stuff that starts off as open
source.  But the modifications they use would most likely be useful only
to them [and they have contributed back a lot of patches etc to the oss
versions of the software they use].  And the stuff they use would only
be useful at the sort of extra high loads they put on it.
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