The Growth of Drupal and the Drop of Closed Source
The development of Drupal since its inception to the open source community in 2001 is an
important benchmark for the growth of how the open source community and commercial
private enterprises interact in...
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The Growth of Drupal and the Drop of Closed Source
The development of Drupal since its inception to the open source community in 2001 is an
important benchmark for the growth of how the open source community and commercial
private enterprises interact in the digital arena.
In the mid-90s, cautious observers were witnessing a new kind of financial system
emerging because of open source. This economy was based on creators liberally sharing and
further refining superior quality content with users who would offer helpful feedback and
frequently, make contributors of their own. More than a flourishing ecosystem generating
user- sensitive content and thoughts, however, open source communities stood, and
presently stand, for an outlook of communal work and association. Open source
communities are driven by a commitment to the achievement of the combined and to user
contribution.
It is comprehensible then that politically-savvy open source community members saw a
usual merge between the group
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