Category: 1.5 Commercial Open Source
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Talk Slides: The Commercial Open Source Business Model
For my AMCIS 2009 talk on the single-vendor commercial open source business model, first the abstract, then the slides: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software. Commercial open source at first glance represents an…
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The Intellectual Property Rights Imperative of Single-Vendor Open Source
I guess everybody knows it but nobody ever named it, as far as I know, so I’m doing it here: The Intellectual Property Rights Imperative of Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Always act in such a way that you, and only you, possess the right to provide the open source project under a license of your…
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Every License has its Time and Place
You may have noticed the recent discussion about which open source license a single-vendor commercial open source firm should choose for its community offering. In this blog post I’ll argue that this choice depends on the state and speed of the firm.