And the closed source mentality travels all the way around the distribution cycle.

The maintenance of such imbalances is dependent on closed source processes.

Both open and closed source applications can be built, including enterprise systems and games.

It's closed source, and the only people who get to hack it work for Cisco.

This may sound hypocritical when you consider that Gracenote's own client software is closed source.

Many open source, some free but closed source, and a few commercial options await our trials.

This suggests the two products might finally be on their way to displacing closed source alternatives.

For instance, today's misunderstood energy crisis provides a glaring example of the liability of closed source policymaking.

Our transaction is brokered by the Federal Reserve, who has a monopoly on this closed source currency.

And according to a separate report, open source overall databases are gaining traction faster than closed source databases.

Operating in a closed source fashion, the right to actually produce currency is held exclusively by the Federal Reserve.

These additional funds are not printed into existence, but must be won from others in the closed source system.

All that is closed source.

Since VP8 is currently closed source and proprietary code, it's hard to say what patent claims it might be vulnerable to.

Also worth noting is that while Opera itself is closed source, Dragonfly is open source with the code available under a BSD license.

However, Sun has made it clear that no final decision has been made and despite the inflammatory Slashdot headlines, MySQL isn't going closed source.