Chef becomes 100% free software

Chef, the purveyor of a popular configuration-management system, has announceda move away from the open-core business model and toward the open-sourcing of allof its software. "We aren't making this change lightly. Over theyears we have experimented with and learned from a variety of differentopen source, community and commercial models, in search of the rightbalance. We believe that this change, and the way we have made it, bestaligns the objectives of our communities with our own businessobjectives. Now we can focus all of our investment and energy on buildingthe best possible products in the best possible way for our communitywithout having to choose between what is 'proprietary' and what is 'in thecommons.'"