Comments on: The Unsurprising Surprise of Open Source M&A http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/ because technology is just another ecosystem Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Boycott Novell » Links 02/02/2008: Competition Scrutiny, Linux at Russian Schools, EU and FLOSS http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-296845 Boycott Novell » Links 02/02/2008: Competition Scrutiny, Linux at Russian Schools, EU and FLOSS Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:40:46 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-296845 [...] The Unsurprising Surprise of Open Source M&A [...] [...] The Unsurprising Surprise of Open Source M&A [...]

]]> By: werner http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-296639 werner Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:15:25 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-296639 There is no problem for the population, nor for open-source. Software firms try to take over the best what was developed as open, to diminuish development costs. But the population has the option, to continue to use the open version at the time of the privatization, and everybody can fork it. So it's a much bigger risk for them to spent plenty money for takeover a project, but later nobody buy it because people continue a slightly older version or a fork. This liberty is warranting the GPL There is no problem for the population, nor for open-source.

Software firms try to take over the best what was developed as open, to diminuish development costs.

But the population has the option, to continue to use the open version at the time of the privatization, and everybody can fork it. So it’s a much bigger risk for them to spent plenty money for takeover a project, but later nobody buy it because people continue a slightly older version or a fork. This liberty is warranting the GPL

]]> By: Dalibor Topic http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-296219 Dalibor Topic Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:26:15 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-296219 I should really pen something down about the transition of the proprietary vendors to the record industry business model: pick up things people like, make 'em popular, profit. Punk's not dead! Only commercialized. :) I should really pen something down about the transition of the proprietary vendors to the record industry business model: pick up things people like, make ‘em popular, profit.

Punk’s not dead! Only commercialized. :)

]]> By: Network Engineer http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-295574 Network Engineer Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:06:44 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/#comment-295574 Open source hybrid companies, those take try to leverage a community and exploit it for commercial gain have not succeeded in general. With the exception, that is, of RedHat, MYSQL, and a few others. The better approach is a new breed of commercial vendors that embrace open source (and provide open source APIs and SDKs to the open source community), but don't open their code. Salesforce.com (www.Salesforce.com) has been successful doing this with their app exchange portal. Another early stage company that does this well is www.PacketTrap.com. Let the open source community build extensions to proprietary commercial solutions. Open source hybrid companies, those take try to leverage a community and exploit it for commercial gain have not succeeded in general. With the exception, that is, of RedHat, MYSQL, and a few others. The better approach is a new breed of commercial vendors that embrace open source (and provide open source APIs and SDKs to the open source community), but don’t open their code. Salesforce.com (www.Salesforce.com) has been successful doing this with their app exchange portal. Another early stage company that does this well is http://www.PacketTrap.com. Let the open source community build extensions to proprietary commercial solutions.

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