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Looking Back at Open Source in 2005
bhmit1 writes "BusinessWeek is reporting on the open source progress in 2005. Their conclusion: "in 2005, the software movement finally gained traction in Corporate America and saw a new influx of VC cash." Has the shift in corporate america really occurred or are activities like the profitability of Red Hat signalling that the CEO's are still holding on to the old way of business?"
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http://22surf.org/
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou p_id=113442&package_id=122947
22surf Summary:
22surfing is a sport. It's for individuals and businesses alike. It's about surfing along with natural laws like Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and intellectual property law towards one's dreams as a creator, hacker, and entrepreneur. It's about riding technology's bleeding edge out to where artist-hackers, writers, movie directors, photographers, and musicians form their own media archives and markets, as Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) surpass yesterday's proprietary solutions.
Digital rights management (DRM) is the holy grail of the internet. It is a multi-billion-dollar, ever-expanding market, and an apt solution will be invaluable to the livelihood of content creators, programmers, and media companies. The 22surf business plan for generating revenue with Open Source CMS and DRM has been Open Sourced in an effort to foster discussion and inspire fellow artist-hackers to build businesses. Rather than proposing another CMS, 22surf seeks the best route to syndicated commerce and DRM across existing CMS.
An Open Source solution to DRM will be important to artists, musicians, and creators, to the Open Source community, and to DRM. If only proprietary methods for DRM are developed, then corporations will be granted more power over creators, and too, it will be difficult to realize universal, robust standards, as hackers around the world won't be allowed under the hood to improve the system. Furthermore, an Open Source solution to DRM will provide countless business opportunities and jobs for Open Source programmers with record labels, stock photography archives, and movie studios, all of whom will save money.
An Open Source solution to DRM and syndicable media markets is a natural destination for the Open Source movement. DRM and syndication are based on methods and algorithms that must be transparent in order for DRM and syndication to be trusted, secure, and universally accepted.
The internet favors the direct connection of the creator and consumer. In the emerging webscape defined by the Open Source CMS renaissance, creators will be able to define the rights determining how their content is used, and consumers will be able to support their favorite artists and musicians without large corporations taking a cut.
Open Source is granting the creator the power to create their own media markets. Oscommerce is fully capable of handling pay-per-download models alongside physical media sales, bypassing the often greater than 50% cut into an artist's profits that older models centered about large, proprietary online markets claimed. Open Source CMS also allows the creator to maximize their own brand rather than building amazon.com's or barnesandnoble.com's. Future 22surf models are explored, including scenarios wherein open DRM protocols such as openipmp and Media-S are married to Open Source CMS such as xoops, postnuke, tiki, gallery, and oscommerce to provide content marketplaces connecting creators directly to consumers.
22surf encourages artist-hackers to download the 22surf business plan for building profitable archives and marketplaces with Open Source CMS, change and build on it, and join in the following revenue streams: 1) sell keyword advertising throughout free OSCMS hosting services (blogs, galleries, etc.), 2) sell advanced hosting options/extra disk space, 3) charge 5% on content marketplace transactions, 4) charge 5% on Open Source Arts freelance services marketplace transactions, 5) manage/host media assets of large businesses (record labels/movie studios/etc.) with openipmp or Media-S for DRM 6) sell printing services (or partner with businesses) for hard-copy books, prints, CDs, DVDs, etc. 7) create a syndicable friendster/FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) network.
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Not if I can show prior art.
I submitted the same link yesterday. Got rejected. Again. Sigh. Mod me down. Whatever. IS THERE NO JUSTICE? OH, THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL!!!
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