Face it: There's no money in open source(infoworld.com)

4 pointsby mpbmvor 10 Jahren2 comments

Face it: There's no money in open source

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3032647/open-source-tools/face-it-theres-no-money-in-open-source.html

2 comments

jfaucettvor 10 Jahren

This article seems to conflate "openness" with "open source". As long as something has a free enough license it qualifies as open source in my book. Anyone else can come along grab that software and do everything that the licenses allow with it.

As to "Where the model (open source) starts to resemble “evil” is when it pretends to an openness that simply isn’t there."

evil? I could care less how many different organizations or people are contributing to an open source project, is "openness" as the author defines it relevant at all, to anyone? (for most of those projects mentioned in the article the license is pretty liberal - apache 2.0)

I would have liked to have read at least some mentions of dispirate revenue models for utilizing open source software that have specificaly failed, unfortunately none of that here. Does anyone know of some?

mpbmvor 10 Jahren

Matt Asay's headline is a bit click-baity since he concludes "That’s where the real money is: proprietary value built on top of open source." So what he means is that it's hard to sell just the raw open source stuff by itself.

This is a follow up to http://www.infoworld.com/article/3032120/open-source-tools/v...