Clownfish - How important is open source

Posted April 30th, 2008 by Markus@outhink.com

Matt, Reagan, Carey, James, Markus

Table consensus: Very important.
Issues:
Community support
Proprietary formats
Coders available
Different licenses (BSD vs GPL, etc)

Alternatives: may be proprietary and not free, but open API necessary

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