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Open Source Economics and Why IBM Is Winning

Posted by kdawson on from the committed dept.

driehle writes "In an article published in IEEE Computer magazine I recently looked at the economics of open source. I argue that large system integrators will do best and that open source startups will keep struggling. For developers, open source creates independence and new career paths as committers, while non-committers will fall on hard times. The race is on!"

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  1. Re:Economics of Open Source - Bruce Perens by jkrise · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oops.. sorry, wrong link. Corrected here:

    http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html

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