Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model – NYTimes.com – Whether open-source firms are practical as long-term businesses, however, is a much murkier question. The best-known open-source company is Red Hat, which produces a variant of the Linux operating system for server computers. Like most of its peers, Red Hat offers a free version [...]
This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily [...]
I am on my way to the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco today and I am excited it’s always good to see old friends and talk about selling free software without getting the 1,000-yard stare. If you are going to be there hit me up on Twitter. Technorati Tags: Business, Community, [...]
