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[John Vandenberg]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 November 2010 20:04, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The name given of this type of open source + vendor lock-in has been
>> on the tip of my tongue since this conversation started, but I've not
>> been able to dislodge it.
>> Does anyone recall a name for this beast?
>
>
> "Proprietary."

;-)

> Other terms include "shared source",

thats a different, and more ugly, kind of 'convenience' to the one we have here.

> "open core"

thats a new one to me..?

> or just "trap".

and that one is out of RMS' phrasebook, fa sure.

iirc, the first big argument about this was the binary blobs in the
Linux kernel.  A few good derogatory terms came out of that.

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John Vandenberg