A new open source challenge in this year. Open source players like BitTorrent and MySQL have decided to close their source codes. The President of BitTorent said it is due to the people who use their open source code were repackaged the product, charging for it or even worse, loading the software with spyware. Thus, unlike all other P2P softwares, BitTorrent will still be released to the public for free, but it will be a closed source product.

Meanwhile, MySQL also announced that it will no longer be distributed the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball. As a result, it will make the non-customers to accessing the code harder while MySQL promised that the code will be generated through the MySQL BitKeeper repository. One of the things that many users worry about is whether they’re getting an inferior version of MySQL by using the Community version. Urlocker says that MySQL “wants to make sure the Community version is rock solid,” but admitted that the company has introduced features into the Community edition of the software that “[weren't] as robust as we thought, and created some instabilities.” According to this article.