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O'Reilly on the Open Source Industry

Posted by michael on from the as-long-as-they-buy-books dept.

Idmat writes "Tim's latest opus, "The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors," starts with Sherlock Holmes ruminating on "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" and winds up explaining why open source is good for businesses even if it isn't always good for software vendors."

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  1. Re:Business Models by Verizon+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you ever seen that shirt that says "Support Free Software! Send us money!"

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