Thoughts on open source software economy: Downloads, sales and value
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| It's important to note that while open source ecosystems have received a fair
| share of attention very little light has been shed on the concept of an
| associated economy. It makes sense that if most of an open source ecosystem
| flies under the radar, even more of its economy goes unaccounted for.
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http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2007/08/open-source-sof.html
The Culture of Open Source
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| The spirit of the open source movement operates under the assumption that
| software’s most valued resource, its code, should be freely available to
| everyone.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/the_culture_of_open_source.html
Related:
Top Five Open Source Business Models You Never Heard Of
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| The art of “selling” or generating revenue from open source is a topic of
| growing importance as open source takes a larger piece of the software
| business. In the past, open source revenue has largely been associated with
| services marketed by many top tier Linux companies: Support, middleware
| solutions, etc.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3686616
An interview with Matt Asay
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| Glyn Moody talked to him about why he became a GPL believer and how to create
| a billion-dollar revenue open source company.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/240877/#Comments
How to make money by giving stuff away
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| RedHat CFO Charlie Peters said this week that the key to success
| is to "convince customers of the value of moving from free to paid".
| Largely because JBoss is a free download, an estimated 11 million
| people are using it. Now if they can move even a small fraction of
| those customers into the paying column, that will be a significant
| source of revenue.
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| There is something of a snowball effect here. As you bring more
| people into your "community", the community becomes more attractive
| (because of new content, shared knowledge, buzz, etc.), which drives
| even more people in.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=202
How to use open source as a power marketing tool
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| There are a number of ways traditional software vendors can participate
| in the open source software community. They circulate around open
| source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL), and
| how to leverage open source software as a marketing tool.
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| Traditional software vendors need to recognize the shift taking place
| is driven not only by successful open source projects, but also by the
| rapid and broad adoption of open source in the customer marketplace. The
| numbers behind open source adoption are compelling. Linux in both the
| United States and Asia is the fastest growing operating system ever. As
| measured by hostnames, Netcraft reports that the Internet has grown 26.1
| percent over the past 12 months, over 67 percent of it served up by open
| source Apache servers.
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http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/06/24/2057239.shtml
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