Comments on: The Perils of Going from Community to Commercial Open Source http://dirkriehle.com/2008/11/04/the-perils-of-going-from-community-to-commercial-open-source/ Dirk Riehle's blog about everything computer science, applied and more Sat, 12 May 2012 12:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Hugh Simon http://dirkriehle.com/2008/11/04/the-perils-of-going-from-community-to-commercial-open-source/#comment-225 Hugh Simon Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:16:33 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=423#comment-225 As a user, it is fun to have a really free software package written by real freaks. It does not cost anything, and the guys just write it for fun. That is the way to go. Fame is free, and if software is written just for fame, it is free, period. That is the way to go. As a user, it is fun to have a really free software package written by real freaks. It does not cost anything, and the guys just write it for fun.

That is the way to go. Fame is free, and if software is written just for fame, it is free, period. That is the way to go.

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]]> By: Morten Blaabjerg http://dirkriehle.com/2008/11/04/the-perils-of-going-from-community-to-commercial-open-source/#comment-223 Morten Blaabjerg Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:22:51 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=423#comment-223 Thank you for these insights - really interesting read from the delicate crossroads of online communities and internet entrepreneurship. For competitive advantage : You've written earlier about when companies use their support and investments in the open source community to gain competitive advantages in other areas than the sale of software (services, consultancy, hardware etc.). Seems to me the best option for a startup rooted in or dealing with open source is to keep the software open source/GPL'ed and create a business model on something related. Say, like Wikia or Mahalo has done based on MediaWiki. Thank you for these insights – really interesting read from the delicate crossroads of online communities and internet entrepreneurship.

For competitive advantage : You’ve written earlier about when companies use their support and investments in the open source community to gain competitive advantages in other areas than the sale of software (services, consultancy, hardware etc.). Seems to me the best option for a startup rooted in or dealing with open source is to keep the software open source/GPL’ed and create a business model on something related. Say, like Wikia or Mahalo has done based on MediaWiki.

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