recently bought open source software developer redhat for a staggering 30000000000 euros making it i.b.m.'s biggest takeover ever which impact will this have on the open source community or tech idealists giving in to market pressures we asked mikell boom from the technical university of berlin who's been involved in the open source community for 20 years. i think. the commercialization of open source software that we've been seeing also with the acquisitions of redhat and get up hasn't really impacted the daily business because you still have free access to the software. not everyone in the open source community is as optimistic as. open source was designed to be collaborative and centralized but its future looks uncertain for its recently ran a story titled is open source broken after a talk given by good chief operating officer eric. she's worried by companies using open source within their own products i do think that the way that people are consuming and building services around open source has changed there are one of the companies that are flourishing with building businesses arou