What is the true value of open source?
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| Another way to measure open source is through outreach, the market depths
| open source can take us to in dealing with the problems of the world’s 6
| billion. The growth of new forums like the OSS Summit in Hong Kong and new
| tools like Canonical’s Storm, a Python mapper, attest to this.
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| The point is that no one metric values open source correctly. It’s not an
| apples-to-apples match with proprietary business models. Its impact isn’t
| just measured by the mass market.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1198
More here (among other blogs that discussed this):
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9741113-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
How about all those surveys that count 'market share' or 'success' based on
revenue where Linux is [f|F]ree software (needn't be purchased) while
proprietary software can cost $thousands per server.
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