http://www.teledyn.com/node/521 Comments for "Selling Free Software" en http://www.teledyn.com/node/521 <p>An excellent and thorough essay by Tim <span class="caps">O'R</span>eilly on the paradigm shift in <span class="caps">ICT </span>engendered by the free software revolution, and on how the key concepts to profitability are not <em>directly</em> the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html"><span class="caps">GNU</span> Manifesto</a> or the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php">Open Source Definition</a> but in the interplay gap between those movements and what Tim calls the <em>Three Cs</em> of <em>commoditization</em>, <em>collaboration</em>, and <em>customizability</em>.</p> <blockquote><p>If open source pioneers are to benefit from the revolution we've unleashed, we must look through the foreground elements of the free and open source movements, and understand more deeply both the causes and consequences of the revolution.</p> </p></blockquote> <p>Tim illustrates how the hardware industry commoditization parallels to what we see today in software, and reminds us how many of the very top money-makers in the <em>infoware</em> industry today are proud to flash their free-software credentials because, when you're a Google, you don't even try to sell shrink-wrap or consulting support contracts, but instead you sell the software <u>as</u> a service.</p> <p>[<i> Source: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/opensource/paradigmshift_0504.html">The Open Source Paradigm Shift</a></i> ]</p> http://www.teledyn.com/node/521#comments Business GPL Teleconomics Free Software Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:41:53 -0400 garym 521 at http://www.teledyn.com