Chef becomes 100% free software
Chef, the purveyor of a popular configuration-management system, has announced
a move away from the open-core business model and the open-sourcing of all
of its software. "We aren’t making this change lightly. Over the
years we have experimented with and learned from a variety of different
open source, community and commercial models, in search of the right
balance. We believe that this change, and the way we have made it, best
aligns the objectives of our communities with our own business
objectives. Now we can focus all of our investment and energy on building
the best possible products in the best possible way for our community
without having to choose between what is 'proprietary' and what is 'in the
commons.'"