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Story: What vendors really mean by 'open source'

Posted by: pjc158 (Monday 22 December 2008, 6:13 PM)

Typical response embrace or die!

Obviously you have never run a commercial business.

I do understand what open source is all about and why small to large organizations are starting to use it, to save money, but you left one very important issue unanswered how to make money from it (you are not alone in this).

It you have ever been involved in the design and development of bringing a product to market you will now it costs time and money. Further funds are required to continue the development and to be competitive in the market place.

Discounting service based companies as open source cannot support the growing number of companies in this area no one has shown me the commercial viability of developing products for open source for the long term.

I have talked to a number of CEO's from open source companies and they are not making money but hope to sometime soon!

Only time will tell if the open source community is building a house of cards.

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