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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:blatant plug by rucs_hack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cool, the perfect first post. Blessedly free of insight, whilst at the same time vaguely insulting. That and moderated to troll within ten seconds.

    I've never managed that before, another slashdot first for me.

  2. Re:Saw this earlier this month in Computer magazin by oesoga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We are a web development company in India and we prefer open source like php to something like asp.net.