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If not Google, which corporation best champions open source?

blogs.zdnet.com — Which company best represents the values and intent of open source? Which does the most to nurture the ideals and values of open source?Who’s your daddy?

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  • cday, on 09/18/2008, -0/+3Which company is the best champion of open source?

    * Google
    * IBM
    * Red Hat
    * Canonical (Ubuntu)
    * Sun
    * The Linux Foundation
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    That's the problem with polls. The best answers are rarely made available. Maybe the "BEST" at championing open source would be a combination of ALL of those corporations. In the end, isn't that sense of contributing back to the community what its all about?

    And maybe, when all is said and done, the best champion won't be a company at all, it'll be the GPL. Without that, there'd likely be little left to "champion."
  • nickdot, on 09/19/2008, -0/+2... and the one that signed a deal with Microsoft and which pays its top developers to rant on another distro.
  • Vadi0, on 09/19/2008, -0/+2Novell was the one that started Compiz...

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