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The Open Source Paradigm Shift

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pair-of-dimes-equals-twenty-cents dept.

Tim O'Reilly has written up a talk he has given about the open source paradigm shift, which he describes as fundamental and long-term changes in the technology world brought on by the widespread adoption of Free and open source software.

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  1. Open Source business models promote bad software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because if you give software away and get paid only for support and you write good software that does not need support (as software should be!), you are out of business soon.

    Copying microsoft which copies apple and then extracting support fees because users can't install/use this badly designed/written software themselves is not improving the lives of computer users. I am not impressed by OSS, yet.

    The academia and hobbists are appropriate areas for creating such software, but pure software business?