Commercial Open Source Software

“Open Core is the New Dual Licensing Model” is the last of a chain of interesting posts against or in favor of open core, coming from different realm of experience: the analyst guy Stephen O’Grady, the free software evangelist Simon Phipps, the hacker Brian Aker and last but not least the entrepreneur Mårten Mickos.

Let’s dig now deeper into what is open core to business, and why it is not a business model. Continue reading ‘Open Core is not a Business Model’

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’

Open innovation is taking over in many areas, and open source plays an important role especially in software sequential innovation, where each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors. Foremost, for the most of us before anything else software (open source included) is a tool towards a goal.

Continue reading ‘The Open Source Innovation Backbone for Startups’