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The Business of Open Source is Not Software
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| I sometimes get asked âhow do you make
| money selling free software?â and I have
| to answer that I have no clue. I donât
| sell software, I sell solutions. The
| prevalence of Software as a Service
| (SaaS) businesses are making this easier,
| since people are being introduced to the
| mindset of getting a solution without
| having to purchase software, but the
| biggest challenge to my business is
| getting people to understand the value
| free and open software provides in
| creating a great solution without the
| âpurchase softwareâ mentality.
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http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=1141
Open Source vs. Proprietary Software Platforms: the Market's Perspective
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| And, open source doesn't kill innovation.
| Quite the contrary - thanks to the
| inherent openness of the model and the
| competitive nature built-in (forks are an
| extreme example) â open source fosters
| great innovation.
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http://blogs.nuxeo.com/ebarroca/2009/09/open-source-vs-proprietary-software-platforms-the-markets-perspective-.html
Recent:
What Kind Of Innovation Do Patents Encourage?
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| Petra Moser's research comparing innovation in
| countries with patents to those without patents has
| shown that countries without patents tend to be just
| as innovative, but that the innovation takes different
| forms. Thus, patents tend to divert from the natural
| market of innovation to areas that are more easily
| "protectable."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090921/0217286260.shtml
Patents: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovation
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| Its true that if you put your labor into an idea then
| you should be allowed to consume the fruits of it, but
| the only reason why you put that much labor into that
| idea(or innovation or discovery) is because you were
| excluded from using someone elseâs labor. Intellectual
| Property is a classic solution created by the problem
| itself, just like everything else in the world done by
| the government.
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http://www.reasonforliberty.com/reason/patents-horizontal-vs-vertical-innovation.html
Yet Another Study Shows That Patents Lead To Sub-Optimal Innovation
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| A few months back, two professors, Andrew W. Torrance and Bill Tomlinson,
| published a paper on a simulation game they ran to test out some of these
| hypotheses. A bunch of folks submitted this back when it first came out, but
| I wanted to spend some time looking over the details before writing about it.
| Basically, Torrance and Tomlinson create a nice simulation system that really
| does a good job simulating the various models for innovation with patents or
| in a more collaborative world. And, what they found in the simulation they
| ran supports what has actually happened in the real world, according to the
| research we've discussed in the past:
|
| These results indicate that current patent systems (that is, systems
| combining patent and open source protection for inventions) may generate
| significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001),
| and social utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. This suggests
| that current patent systems may significantly deter, rather than spur,
| technological innovation compared to a commons system.
|
| Specifically, the results compared three separate models: one where
| everything gets patented, one where it's a hybrid model with both patents and
| a common, and one that was pure commons. The results are pretty striking. In
| the pure commons (no patents) world, they ended up with more innovation,
| significantly greater productivity and massively more social utility.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/1430475981.shtml
Related:
Telling the Truth About Software Patents and Innovation
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| Would abolishing software patents, then, lessen innovation among large
| companies? Again, no. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle were founded before software
| could be patented. They couldn't afford to quit innovating simply because
| patent protection became unavailable.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071101145010612
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