Can Open Source Companies Stay That Way?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 21, 2001 @01:18AM from the gates-creak-down dept.

JoeGee writes: "According to this article on ZD Net, more and more companies born from open source projects are beginning to move towards closed source products as a source of revenue. Version 5 of GFS will be closed source, and even SuSE's director of sales Holger Dyroff has a quote that seems to disparage the service model of revenue. The one company that refuses to change its operations is, surprisingly, Red Hat. Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann says 'We believe the Red Hat brand stands for open-source.'" Yes, this is a dupe. Bad Tim! *whack*

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Re:Open Source was a mass delusion by ab315 · 2001-11-21 01:54 · Score: 1, Troll

Whoever marked my post as "troll" -- it's not. I know nobody likes to hear the truth but that's the way it is. We have all got to wake up now the bubble is over. Just talk to any ordinary person in the street about the idea of running a business based on giving software away for nothing. They will think you are a total fruit-loop, as if you said you were going to make money by selling vacations on the Moon or by investing in edible cardboard toys (It's the next big thing!)