Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Open Source: The Model Is Broken

BusinessWeek says "The open-source business model that relies solely on support and service revenue streams is failing to meet the expectations of investors" in the article called Open Source: The Model Is Broken

The author takes a cost sharing perspective on open source. What is common to all companies should go open source and then each company needs to provide add-on value (of some sort) and make money out of this value add. What "value add" is seen as inventions or new business models.

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