Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times) [LWN.net]

Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

Posted Oct 25, 2004 17:09 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times) by pellicci
Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

" Smaller Open Source Software companies have tended to rely rather heavily on consulting revenue to fund their development efforts. That model is somewhat limited. "

That is because they couldn't so far, or they are not trying now, to offer complete solutions, from hardware( drivers problems), the integration ( legacy apllications and MS locks), the software (a good desktop) and support services (lack of quantity professionals)...

Things have developed so that all those areas are falling slowly into line... and everything from doc to debugg will get much better, as soon as commercial interests drop from server/supercomputer into the more everyday/everywhere computer needs.(IMO drivers issues are the more 'inadequate' ones, preventing another explosion of FOSS use.)

That is why articles like the one we are commenting will start to appear more often.

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