I stumbled across this article in the International Herald Tribune today and was shocked by how off such an otherwise reputable publication could be. The general tone of the article was that open source is struggling to grow. I'm not sure how 100% year over year growth for the prominent commercial open source startups connotes "struggling," but....
On one hand, open-source developers are continuing to struggle to find ways to make money from open-source software, most of which is given away.
But the only way to do so is to work closely with their biggest rivals - proprietary software makers like International Business Machines, Microsoft, SAP, Cisco and Oracle - which also have an interest in limiting erosion to their own sales.
Since when? We have a host of open source companies jockeying to be first out the IPO gate after MySQL. We have revenues that our proprietary cousins would salivate for at a similar stage in corporate existence (and it just keeps getting easier to sell open source). ...
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