The relationship between open source communities and vendors keeps being a topic of debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk about his “software freedom scorecard“, a method to indicate the approach vendors take to promote software freedom as part of their business strategies.
Matt Asay says we have to get used to companies separating their open-source efforts from their revenue models. We may be talking of ”fauxpen source” vendors in this case - as originally named by Taurus Balog - but it doesn’t necessarily cut open development out of the equation.
I want to make my point by having a look at how differently two companies have been building a business strategy around Apache projects. Continue reading ‘About Open Source Value Creation and Consumption’
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