Linked by David Adams on Mon 16th Aug 2004 17:44 UTC
I read something in one of the comments for an OSNews posting a couple weeks ago that sent me thinking. It wasn't an original or profound thought. In fact, it's a rather commonly-held opinion that happens to be quite misguided. It's an opinion summed up by the "open source = communist" meme that gets thrown around in thousands of flamewars all over the internet. In this essay, I will explore why this idea is wrong and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.
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open source = communist
So you decided to write a long article because of a troll?
Anyway, the company that I'm contracting with and worked for 6 years ships linux on our embedded and non-embedded devices. I know we've saved tons of money from not having to pay licensing fees and have actually tweaked the kernel on occasion for some very specific things we wanted to do.
If you want to make money off of open source learn how to add value to the lower-level open source software stack that is already there. Keep your code proprietary if you want. We do.