Open Source vs. Proprietary -- Category Perspective
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| The market as a whole is down about 10% compared to 2006. The open
| source and proprietary trends on the unit chart have closely
| mirrored each other except for this year. On the revenue chart,
| open source has produced more dollars for the past 4 years and
| looks like it will again this year.
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| Lastly, I think the proprietary camp is catching on that open
| source is beginning to gain not only the mindshare of developers
| but the shelf-space in bookstores.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/open_source_vs_proprietary_cat_1.html
Related:
Free Downloads vs. Sales: A Publishing Case Study
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| As part of our continued effort to understand the impact on book
| sales of the availability of free downloads, I wanted to share some
| data on downloads versus sales of the book Asterisk: The Future of
| Telephony, by Leif Madsen, Jared Smith, and Jim Van Meggelen, which
| was released for free download under a Creative Commons license.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/06/free_downloads.html
U.K. publisher launches its first 'wiki' novel
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| Penguin, which embarked on the project with a group of creative
| writing and new media students, says it is using the novel as a
| test of whether a group of disparate and diverse people can
| create a "believable fictional voice."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6155433.html
Open-Source Books
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| You talk to any start-up company, and literally 100% are using
| open-source platforms. And you know, 20 years from now, these
| companies will be the new Dells and Compaqs. Microsoft and
| Oracle might have delayed the transformation to open source,
| but this thing is inevitable.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/12/lulu-linux-young-tech-enter-cx_ag_0412lulu.html?partner=yahootix
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