At the UK's State of Open conference , Dawn Foster, director of data science for the CHAOSS Project , unveiled compelling evidence that forks community driven alternatives to proprietary codebases are thriving. At the same time, companies that abandoned open source principles face stagnant growth and disillusioned users. Also: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly The business theory behind going proprietary sounds good. You dump your open source licenses for example,...
