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Open source entrepreneur turns his hobby into an Inc. 500 enterprise

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 202.155.218.122] on October 03, 2007 04:25 AM
Article: "It's very easy to fall into the trap: let's build some special sauce and sell that. That's the way the proprietary software industry works, but it doesn't map well onto an open source community. It generates hostility and they will leave you."

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http://www.ifax.org: "Upon this Open Source foundation, iFAX Solutions has developed HylaFAX Enterprise Edition. Enterprise Edition takes the power of HylaFAX Open Source and adds an expanded featureset for our enterprise customers. [...] A non-free version with an expanded featureset."

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Apparently it's so easy to fall into this trap, young Darren did it himself...

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