Open source funding down in Q4 2007…

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Don’t care about the charts. People who can use Open Source will use it regardless of funding …

Funding may have gone down, however in terms on Open Source consolidation and acquisitions it was much higher than 2006. Regardless of VC funding Open Source is growing heavily and it will grow more in 2008 and beyond.

Very interesting and not very surprising, Matt. As the meaning of “open source” got so diluted and the business models of some new adopters assimilated to that of proprietary software, it become more apparent that Free software (as in GPL and its derivatives) was the way to go. That’s why GNU/Linux is so far ahead of open source in the enterprise when it comes to adoption.

In short, open source is something else whose value was radically warped. We have to ask ourselves if OSI-approved ‘open source’ means what it used to mean. If not, we’re killing the term and harm everyone who is honest, e.g. Digium, Red Hat, even MySQL. People ought to return to the term “Free software” and just emphasize that it’s about freedom. ‘Open source’ should have been more stubborn and selective. Have I lost hope in ‘open source’ because of the charts? No, that was months ago when I saw the thing devolving and called it quits.

Just my 50 pence and I hope I don’t upset anyone.

Please buy open source software to support it. There is no such thing as totally free. We want commercial support so we must buy open source. But *never* spend a dime on Microsoft products. Open source is really great.

[...] 451 Group: Open source funding fell in 2007 January 4th, 2008 by admin The 451 Group has put up an article on the fall in funding for open source companies in 2007. “Disclosed funding deals were down 40.7% to $323.87m for the full year, compared to $546.3m in 2007. While a reduction in funding had been expected after the huge levels seen in 2006, a dramatic reduction in funding during the fourth quarter meant that total funding for 2007 was also lower than the $334.82m raised in 2006.“ [...]

[...] 2008 should be FedEx year for commercial Open Source. It's time to deliver: Open Source funding is not exactly dry as a bone, but is definitely taking the plunge (I consider this a good thing, actually). The money has been awarded, now it's time to get to real work and prove our worth. No excuses. [...]

[...] it is 1 April, and no I’m not joking. Following the plunge in the fourth quarter of 2007, VC funding started 2008 on a [...]

[...] $100.4m in the whole of the first quarter of 2007. It’s an extraordinary turnaround after a dismal fourth quarter of 2008, and helps to explain why the funding level for the last quarter was so low. [...]

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