The Way VCs Think About Open Source: Mostly Wrong (infoworld.com)

An anonymous reader writes: In an epic smack-down, Simon Phipps examines a recent article by some VCs with an apparently strong track record in open source startups and finds the way they see the world makes them plain wrong about Red Hat, OSI licenses, Apache and probably everything else they talk about.

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Re:Ok, what's a VC?

[Ravaldy]

because corporations will happily pay for "commercial support" of critical systems, even if no one actually ever uses it

This critical system support you speak of is why people still buy MS and equivalent competitors. Large businesses that depend on their systems to operate require their suppliers to be accountable. Open source without a support plans = no accountability. For you at home installing OSs because it's fun, that's fine but critical business is exactly that. So the Redhat model is fine. Not all companies can afford to have a top notch Linux Kernel expert, a software developer and whatever else the company needs on staff.