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Story: Open source projects 'need more customer focus'

Posted by: Nicholas Donovan (Friday 3 June 2005, 8:11 PM)

Open Source is Not a Business Model.

I see a pattern. The pattern is a series of articles by both EWeek and ZD-Net to confuse Open Source as a development process and attempt to call it a business model.

It is not. Open Source is the Scientific Method applied to software development. The Scientific Method implies the formulation of hypothesis, the open demonstration of the principles of that hypothesis and the open and efficacious reproduction of said with validation.

The business model chosen to sell such software is not part of that definition. While there are avenues of efficiencies that enable more effective marketing and distribution Open Source is itself not a business model.

I really wish all these 'Open Source Experts' in the IT-Media would have the ability to comprehend that a quit this silly charade of attempting to confuse the public.

If that was the intent, it failed.