Jason Matusow Open Quotations

Open source is the same thing as proprietary code in that it belongs to the author, who can choose how to license it,

Look at commercial open source companies. How different is Red Hat's business model from Microsoft's? I'd say it's pretty marginal.

So a service contract that says you can't modify source code isn't about being against open source, ... It's about saying 'Hey, I want to be able to deliver to you additional value, and if I send you a patch automatically and you change the source code, it may blow up your computer.'