Open source is not an either/or issue
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| This non-rivalry leads to the fact that knowledge has a zero marginal
| cost for the producer of that knowledge. While there are resources
| expended to create the first copy, there are no further resources
| that need to be expended by the producer for additional copies. In
| a free market we tend to see products offered near their marginal
| cost, which for knowledge would be zero. While incumbent industrial
| information business models that relied on charging royalties per
| copy to fund fixed development costs have dominated our recent past,
| changes in the marketplace are now increasingly including zero
| marginal cost methods.
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The open source decision
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| Linux isn't the only foot in the door for open source. Firefox and
| OpenOffice have brought open source into the public eye and the
| stigma behind it is evaporating. "Firefox and Mozilla are not as
| easy to beat down as Netscape because the production model is not
| the same, the forces driving it are not the same," said Leibovitch.
| "And the same thing is happening with OpenOffice."
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| As time goes on, people who've been resistant to change are moving
| on or retiring. One of the bigger obstacles is simply inertia.
| "People (are) used to doing things in a certain way with a certain
| vendor," he said. ?And although there are good reasons to switch, there
| may not be compelling reasons to switch."
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