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Congrats to Webmink and Forgerock

Congrats to Simon Phipps on what sounds like a great new job at ForgeRock and on his new column in ComputerWorld.UK.

One of the key benefits to customers of the source code becoming open source is that, in the event a product is discontinued by its owner, a group of people from the community can simply pick up the source code and keep on maintaining and improving it. That's a radical change from proprietary products, which can be killed stone dead with no appeal. With open source, the company may fold but the community carries on.

That's all fine in theory, but does it actually work? I intend to find out. Starting this week, I'm joining ForgeRock as chief strategy officer.

Dave Johnson in Open Source 04:12AM May 10, 2010 Comments [1]
Tags: identity opensource

Comments:

Thanks, Dave! The good news is we already have a steady stream of business flowing after just 3 months. It's good to be working again :-)

Posted by Simon Phipps on May 14, 2010 at 01:38 PM EDT #

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