Thanks for the clarification. Have changed that sentence about neutral point to better reflect original meaning.

Will also make better efforts to say hello next time – you're pretty easy to spot

Great post and thanks for the write up on our session. I rushed through the presentation, and apologise if I confused anyone further, and would like to clarify a couple points.

At the code level it doesn’t matter how the code was developed, or the legalese surrounding it, OSS code and proprietary code work well together. The point I was trying to make is that there are numerous OSS communities that develop OSS solutions on top of the Microsoft Windows platform, and in fact tens of thousands of OSS applications/services only run on Windows.

Regarding the move to the middle, I’m not suggesting that mixed source is a neutral point – and am not passing judgement on the alternate approaches to software development/distribution/licensing. I do think however, that some OSS companies are increasingly seeing value in providing proprietary alternatives to grow their business, just as proprietary vendors are learning that there is value in adopting an OSS strategy – whether they’re simply using it to reduce development costs by grabbing open source packages and wrapping it in proprietary code, or in providing open source solutions themselves.

Sorry I didn’t get to catch up with you .. and I look forward to meeting you at future events.

Thanks! Gary

Your photos are just too good so couldn't resist adding them to my post. Thanks!

see you next time