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| From | "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat The Economics Of Open Source |
| Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:06:48 +1306 |
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The article makes some good points, but seems to measure success solely by revenue and market capitalization, going so far as to call open source a failure. In doing so, the author totally ignores other potential measures of success, and leaves out a whole class of corporations that have been successful for long periods of time: non-profits like Apache, Mozilla, Linux Foundation, PostgreSQL, SPI (Debian), OSI, FSF (GNU), and others. Maybe these organizations don't create "shareholder value" for themselves, but they sure as hell do it for others that use their products. Omitting such an important class of organizations from the article is a huge oversight that unfairly downplays the contributions of Free Software and Open Source to business and the world economy. -- View this thread at http://squte.com/node/4432#comment-10389
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Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-14 06:46 +0000
Re: Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat The Economics Of Open Source "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-15 13:06 +1306
Re: Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat The Economics Of Open Source Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-15 11:25 -0800
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