http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/02/strength-of-support-models-and-symbiosis-for-free-and-open-source-software/ A blog for the enterprise open source community Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:15:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/02/strength-of-support-models-and-symbiosis-for-free-and-open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-486548 The Guru’s Earn More Money, Biz Networking and Sales Models for Prepaid Cell Phones On-line Businesses 3 Course Pack | Free Cell Phone Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:40:37 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/?p=1245#comment-486548 [...] 451 CAOS Theory » Strength of support models and symbiosis for … [...] [...] 451 CAOS Theory » Strength of support models and symbiosis for … [...]

]]> http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/02/strength-of-support-models-and-symbiosis-for-free-and-open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-480434 451 CAOS Theory » The rejuvenation of community-controlled open source Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:26:18 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/?p=1245#comment-480434 [...] of community-controlled open source Matthew Aslett, October 15, 2009 @ 5:26 am ET Jay recently speculated, and I agreed, that we may be starting to see a return to support and other services, rather than [...] [...] of community-controlled open source Matthew Aslett, October 15, 2009 @ 5:26 am ET Jay recently speculated, and I agreed, that we may be starting to see a return to support and other services, rather than [...]

]]> http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/02/strength-of-support-models-and-symbiosis-for-free-and-open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-475844 451 CAOS Theory » Three options for the future of Open-Core licesing Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:56:08 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/?p=1245#comment-475844 [...] would agree with my CAOS colleague Jay Lyman’s assessment that we may be starting to see a return to support and other services, rather than commercial code [...] [...] would agree with my CAOS colleague Jay Lyman’s assessment that we may be starting to see a return to support and other services, rather than commercial code [...]

]]> http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/02/strength-of-support-models-and-symbiosis-for-free-and-open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-475739 Links 04/10/2009: New X Server, Nexuiz, Arora, OpenSSH, Perl | Boycott Novell Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:49:00 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/?p=1245#comment-475739 [...] Strength of support models and symbiosis for free and open source software Next, I wanted to address the free software and freedom versus open source and business debate. While this is, similar to open source versus proprietary, also viewed often as a ‘war’ that must have a winner and loser, it is my fundamental belief what without freedom, the ideology of free software and organizations such as the Free Software Foundation, commercial open source would be nothing more than some big vendor’s or big consortium’s latest buzzword, campaign, strategy, etc. Conversely, without the billions and billions of dollars that vendors, channel players and others are making and the costs that customers and users are saving thanks to open source software, the ideology would most likely be relegated to academia and philosophy books. Thus, the two — that is free software and the ideology and open source software and the commercial use of it — are symbiotic. [...] [...] Strength of support models and symbiosis for free and open source software Next, I wanted to address the free software and freedom versus open source and business debate. While this is, similar to open source versus proprietary, also viewed often as a ‘war’ that must have a winner and loser, it is my fundamental belief what without freedom, the ideology of free software and organizations such as the Free Software Foundation, commercial open source would be nothing more than some big vendor’s or big consortium’s latest buzzword, campaign, strategy, etc. Conversely, without the billions and billions of dollars that vendors, channel players and others are making and the costs that customers and users are saving thanks to open source software, the ideology would most likely be relegated to academia and philosophy books. Thus, the two — that is free software and the ideology and open source software and the commercial use of it — are symbiotic. [...]

]]> http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/02/strength-of-support-models-and-symbiosis-for-free-and-open-source-software/comment-page-1/#comment-475126 451 CAOS Theory » Strength of support models and symbiosis for … Software Rss Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:08:12 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/?p=1245#comment-475126 [...] more here:  451 CAOS Theory » Strength of support models and symbiosis for … By admin | category: free software | tags: address-the-matter, been-getting, between-open, [...] [...] more here:  451 CAOS Theory » Strength of support models and symbiosis for … By admin | category: free software | tags: address-the-matter, been-getting, between-open, [...]

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