Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired?

prostoalex writes "Can an open source project be acquired? ZDNet's Between The Lines says yes, one just did. Software startup JasperSoft acquired Sourceforge-based project JasperReports, which involved acquiring the copyrights and hiring the lead developer for the project." I guess the point he tries to make is that the new corporate overloads can essentially have a free and non-free version of the code, and more or less orphan the free version. The problem of course is that if the non-free version gets good, others will simply fork.

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[jusdisgi]

AMD is German!

Um, no. [amd.com]

AMD is and always has been a U.S. corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA from the very first year of its existence. They do have a fab in Dresden, but that makes them German about as much as Nike's sweatshops make them Chinese.

Re:LOL

[B'Trey]

Haven't you heard? That's been modernized, renamed and re-released. It's now called The Dell Desktop With Intel Inside Running Windows XP That Wore Levis and Air Nikes, Brought To You By PepsiCo, Available at Amazon.Com.