Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

Posted Oct 25, 2004 16:16 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times) by sepreece
Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

" Frankly, I think he's right - if a group of people got together with the goal of getting rich (the general purpose of starting a business) by writing open-source software, the issues he raises definitely would apply... "

Not Necessarily.

Selling software as a product, yes... is tremendously difficult for any new starter to get reasonably what we can call rich... but that even in Microsoft environments(perhaps even more)!...

Selling integration services, and support services based on a commom pool of software dosent seem to me to be that tremendously difficult if you have the know-how... and on local level, opportunitys abound, capable of a reasonable wealth.

Contrary to Richard A Epstein i belive that is the current model that is not sustainable, because in its large proportion of domestic/SOHO, SME, and some corporation shops, is in the hands of *marchandilists* that tend to walk away from the necessary 'expertize' as integration, systems, support know-how, tend to rize more each time new 'things' get developed.

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