Open Source Business Model Is ‘Broken.’ Really?
Stuart Cohen declared in the Dec. 1 issue of BusinessWeek: “Open Source, The Model Is Broken.” I disagree. Open source was never a business model per se, any more than it was a programmer’s religion, despite the fervor that sometimes surrounds it. Rather, it was, and is, a better way to develop and distribute software.
Stuart Cohen is the former CEO of the Open Source Development Labs, a vendor-sponsored Linux development group. When that organization was folded into The Linux Foundation, Cohen founded and became CEO of the Collaborative Software Initiative, which sponsors vertical industry collaboration projects.
Open Source Business Model Is ‘Broken.’ Really? – Open Source Blog – InformationWeek
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