Comments on: Open Source Business: When Mohamed lives on Mountain http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/03/open-source-business-when-mohamed-lives-on-mountain/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:50:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/03/open-source-business-when-mohamed-lives-on-mountain/comment-page-1/#comment-623147 Roberto Galoppini Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:33:53 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/03/open-source-business-when-mohamed-lives-on-mountain/#comment-623147 Hi Matt, thank you to join the conversation. I just read the <a href="http://www.the451group.com/caos/caos_detail.php?icid=694" rel="nofollow">report</a>, and I believe you covered the topic exhaustively. What I am saying here is that there is an opportunity out there. Mohamed lives on mountain, with his or her small business, but this doesn't mean things have to stay like this. The lack of enterprise taking (commercial) care of those buckets of technology left space for business. Look at <a href="http://www.groundworkopensource.com/resources/webcasts/rrdtool-reporting.html" rel="nofollow">Groundwork partnering with Tobias</a>, or think about the 500 open source projects supported by OpenLogic. Solutions providers are not taking part in this picture yet, but they probably will, soon. The film industry helped <a href="http://www.soundtechnicians.com/" rel="nofollow">sound technicians</a> and others to be their own bosses, in an efficient and effective manner. Who said it couldn't be done with hackers as well? Hi Matt,

thank you to join the conversation.

I just read the report, and I believe you covered the topic exhaustively.

What I am saying here is that there is an opportunity out there. Mohamed lives on mountain, with his or her small business, but this doesn’t mean things have to stay like this. The lack of enterprise taking (commercial) care of those buckets of technology left space for business. Look at Groundwork partnering with Tobias, or think about the 500 open source projects supported by OpenLogic. Solutions providers are not taking part in this picture yet, but they probably will, soon. The film industry helped sound technicians and others to be their own bosses, in an efficient and effective manner.

Who said it couldn’t be done with hackers as well?

]]> By: Matt Aslett http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/03/open-source-business-when-mohamed-lives-on-mountain/comment-page-1/#comment-621117 Matt Aslett Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:40:45 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/03/open-source-business-when-mohamed-lives-on-mountain/#comment-621117 I think Dave raised an important point when he wrote that the free software industry shouldn’t look like the proprietary one, and I do think that most of the vendors we covered in our report are following the strategies they are because they are still thinking like proprietary companies. While there is the potential for greater margins for small vendors from open source, as I <a href="http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/10/27/is-less-more/" title="wrote" rel="nofollow"> in response, I am still not convinced that there is anything special about the sort of business Dave describes that makes it an inherently open source business model. I think Dave raised an important point when he wrote that the free software industry shouldn’t look like the proprietary one, and I do think that most of the vendors we covered in our report are following the strategies they are because they are still thinking like proprietary companies. While there is the potential for greater margins for small vendors from open source, as I in response, I am still not convinced that there is anything special about the sort of business Dave describes that makes it an inherently open source business model.

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