Spotted a while ago on a vendor t-shirt at a conference: ‘we help make open source affordable’ 😉
Whatever about using other people’s code, we have not found it as straightforward as we had expected making our own code available to others. Which license to chose? How to reduce the need for a case-by-case discussion of use?
Thom discusses the issue. Check out our Open Source page.
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