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marshray on Jan 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An important announcement to the Vert.x community

I don't see where on the Vert.x site that it mentions that it's "VMware's IP". I wonder if TM's will soon start popping up everywhere now that corporate lawyers are owning it.

This is disconcerting to anyone who considers the personal project leadership when deciding what open source projects they're going to use in their stack.

How do we know this won't happen to, say, Python now that GvR has left Google for Python? Google certainly seems to be more clueful than EMC/VMware, but how do we know?

stuaxo on Jan 8, 2013 [–]

Python has been around since the early 90s, the website is run by the python foundation - not sure how this could ever work.

marshray on Jan 8, 2013 | [–]

OK, so if the project has a 501c3 non-for-profit corporation holding the website and trademarks, that's a good sign.

What about all the other open source projects?

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