Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 24, 2003 09:40 PM
"My company is cracking..."
Maybe so but most of the people and companies working with open source software is doing it without pay.
There are always exceptions to the rule but they are extremely rare in this field.
"The problem with business that fail, is simply that they failed."
The bankruptcy-rate in these businesses is enormously larger than in other businesses.
After the last few years I can't imagine that there can be so many people left who doesn't understand that there is something wrong with the picture here.
This is in no way limited to open source, there are a number of especially mistreated businesses. Online content providers are another example of businesses with huge bankruptcy-rates.
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Re:Open source businessmodel doesn't work, period.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 24, 2003 09:40 PMMaybe so but most of the people and companies working with open source software is doing it without pay.
There are always exceptions to the rule but they are extremely rare in this field.
"The problem with business that fail, is simply that they failed."
The bankruptcy-rate in these businesses is enormously larger than in other businesses.
After the last few years I can't imagine that there can be so many people left who doesn't understand that there is something wrong with the picture here.
This is in no way limited to open source, there are a number of especially mistreated businesses. Online content providers are another example of businesses with huge bankruptcy-rates.
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