Afraid of Open Source
Many companies are afraid of releasing code under an open source license. Some are afraid that a competitor will take their technology and use it against them. Some are afraid that they'll expose an intellectual property mistake that they've made – and get in trouble. Some are afraid for some reason they can't define or aren't willing to share. Now I'm thinking they might have that general American fear of "being sued".
This morning I was listening to an interview of Mir Imran. He said that if you are interested in learning more about a medical problem or complication, you should read the European literature. Americans are too afraid of being sued to write papers on complications but the Europeans aren't. Made me wonder if that applies to open source software as well.
For the record, if you are afraid of using open source software because you are afraid of being sued, OpenLogic offers indemnification for everything in our library. We want to make it easy for people to use open source.
