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Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero?
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Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero?
businessweek.com - 12/1/2008
Open Source: The Model Is Broken
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Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software
businessweek.com - 12/1/2008
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software
— businessweek.com — As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning to open-source software to handle... more IT tasks By Rachael King After the tech bubble burst, E*Trade's technology chief, Lee Thompson, needed to find a way to do more with ... (more) Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software
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Open source is not all about the money
blogs.zdnet.com - 11/18/2008
Open source is not all about the money
— blogs.zdnet.com — Dave Rosenberg is worried about Sun , a question discussed here last week . “If it fails,”... he writes, “Sun will be the harbinger of sorrow for the rest of the open source world.” The open source business, yes. The open ... (more) Open source is not all about the money

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Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero?
Slashdot — gozunda writes "My company is an open source software vendor/developer. We maintain a popular open source project and keep ourselves afloat by producing commercial products derived from or extending the value of the core project. Over time we've seen our business model eroding as other open source projects produce free versions of the same extensions and utilities that are our bread and butter. Something that was worth $5K last year is suddenly worth $0 because the free version is just as good as the paid. This same cycle is obviously having an impact on pure-play commercial software vendors. Is open source ultimately a race to zero? In ten years will ...

OStatic Buffer Overflow..... [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — China's Firefox browser has one feature the West lacks..... Is open source software a race to zero?..... Killer open source monitoring tools..... Microsoft releases Singularity under unapproved license..... DataForm adds efficient input to OpenOffice.org Calc.....   ...

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