Open Source is not a "Business Model"

Open Source is not a "Business Model"

The flawed assumption here is that success or failure of an open source
project is measured in terms of *business* success.

An open source project can be a "success" even if it has very few users. (For example it can help an entry level college graduate get a job by being a sort of portfolio show case of his her her coding, documentation and organizational skills).

Bloor's naysaying amounts to a restatement of "Sturgeon's Law" (90% of *everything* is crap). However, it ignores that something that looks like "crap" to an IT prognosticator might actually be fertile material for other endeavors.

(Because even the most obscure open source project can be a source of inspiration to others ... to improve, incorporate or even replace with their own work).

Of course I don't expect Robin Bloor to realize that ... because he's probably obeying Arthur C. Clarke's Law, (any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic). This of course is what IT
prognosticators rely upon as they make their pronouncements while peering at their own fowl entrails.

JimD