Talk Slides: The Commercial Open Source Business Model

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   2009-08-21

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2. All Open Source Software is Commercial

   2009-08-21

   […] Barroca after reading Dirk Riehle’s slides about “The Commercial Open Source Business Model” wrote an inspiring blog post, receiving a number of interesting feedback from the business open […]

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   2009-08-19

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   Glenn

   2009-08-17

   I agree with @Kendall. Because we are talking open source, there is nothing to stop third parties from offering customization, installation, and maintenance services for well known open source platforms. We have noticed a definite increase in clients asking for open source solutions, particularly in the corproate web site and enterprise collaborative portal areas. I have recently blogged about this over at http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/open/source/corporate/site but I believe it is because the recession has driven key decision makers to look beyond their own prejudices in order to find greater value from their IT dollar.

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   2009-08-15

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   2009-08-10

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7. 

   Kendall

   2009-08-08

   I have two v. small quibbles — well, distinctions, really — to make. First, company doesn’t have to have *sole* relicensing rights, since they may include some code that they don’t even own in their product, as long as that code is very liberally licensed. (And, of course, that code should ideally be replaceable at a lower cost for company that the total cost of anyone else reimplementing their entire product.) And, second, slides assume that community is technically able (as in MySQL case) to contribute code, which makes rights hand-over primary issue. But in some cases, community can use but not really contribute to the core, since product may be in an R&D space, for example. Otherwise, these slides are excellent.

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