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[News] Fake/Obscure Open Source Paradigms Challenged

  • Subject: [News] Fake/Obscure Open Source Paradigms Challenged
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:23:41 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Open Core Is Bad For Your Software Freedom

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| When I spoke at the Transfer Summit in 
| Oxford last week, I invited the delegates 
| to join me in reforming the Open Source 
| Initiative (OSI). I repeated the 
| explanation I made here, that OSI needs to 
| be rebuilt in the light of a re-projection 
| of software freedom for a new decade. In 
| articulating the challenges facing open 
| source after ten years of success, I 
| asserted - as I usually do - that "open 
| core" is one of the big challenges facing 
| open source. This surprised some delegates.
| 
| Last week MÃrten Mickos, the former CEO of 
| MySQL and new CEO of cloud technology 
| company Eucalyptus, indicated in an 
| interview that he considers open core to be 
| the best model for a new business 
| exploiting open source software. He said
| 
|     "We deliver a fully functional cloud 
|     with Eucalyptus software. You can 
|     download it on a GPL v3 license. But, 
|     additionally, we provide enterprise 
|     features only if you pay for them ... 
|     it's open core,"
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3047&blogid=41

The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly

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| On that first point, I would argue that 
| tons of companies are, actually, billion 
| dollar open source companies: Google, IBM, 
| Facebook and many others, for example, all 
| rely heavily on open source software and 
| are valued at well over a billion dollars. 
| It's unlikely that any of the three would 
| be anywhere near what they are today 
| without open source software. It's just 
| that all of these companies were smart 
| enough not to be in the bad business of 
| selling an infinite good. Instead, they all 
| looked for ways to use an infinite good -- 
| for free -- to make something scarce 
| massively more valuable. With Google it was 
| user's attention and all of the information 
| out on the web. With IBM it was services to 
| support enterprise technology. Even Redhat, 
| the company that kicked off this 
| discussion, really makes its money from 
| services and expertise.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100626/0032429967.shtml


Recent:

Open core is not open source

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| So let me try to make one thing clear: Open
| core may be a good business model, but open
| core is not open source!
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http://openlife.cc/blogs/2010/june/open-core-not-open-source
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