Comments on: Because of open source http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:09:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lusidvicel http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-33983 Lusidvicel Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:55:03 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-33983 Hello, i love factoryjoe.com! Let me in, please :)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('33983','Lusidvicel'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('33983','Lusidvicel','Hello, i love factoryjoe.com! Let me in, please :)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hello, i love factoryjoe.com! Let me in, please :)
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]]> By: Gohn Fyrdman http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-21951 Gohn Fyrdman Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:39:03 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-21951 Ooops, what am I doing this side of the barricade? eh-eh, see ya :D<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('21951','Gohn Fyrdman'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('21951','Gohn Fyrdman','Ooops, what am I doing this side of the barricade? eh-eh, see ya :D'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Ooops, what am I doing this side of the barricade? eh-eh, see ya :D
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]]> By: Gohn Fyrdman http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-21948 Gohn Fyrdman Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:36:49 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-21948 Hopefully we will also take down the owners of the State, i.e., Business.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('21948','Gohn Fyrdman'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('21948','Gohn Fyrdman','Hopefully we will also take down the owners of the State, i.e., Business.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hopefully we will also take down the owners of the State, i.e., Business.
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]]> By: eIT http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-13432 eIT Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:39:43 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-13432 Nice article, thanks Making revenues from free & open source software is one of the most frequently asked questions these days. While there have been a few successful examples of companies (like MySQL, Red Hat etc) which are making money, I’d surmise that these are still very early days for open source revenue & profit models. While open source as an operational paradigm certainly has been having exceptional success against proprietary and closed-software models in the recent past, in my opinion, a lot more thought need to be given and experimentations done before the emergence of viable revenue models for the free & open source models that can successfully compete with the current proprietary software revenue model. Some specifics of the business models are emerging fast, but it will take a few years for the market to test each of these out and hopefully, the fittest will survive. A site that focuses exclusively on <b><a href="�http://www.follars.com�" rel="nofollow">revenue models from open source is Follars.com – Free, Open-source Dollars</a></b>! Ec @ <a href="�http://www.eit.in�" rel="nofollow">IT, Software Database @ eIT.in</a><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13432','eIT'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13432','eIT','Nice article, thanks\r\n\r\nMaking revenues from free &amp; open source software is one of the most frequently asked questions these days. While there have been a few successful examples of companies (like MySQL, Red Hat etc) which are making money, I’d surmise that these are still very early days for open source revenue &amp; profit models.\r\n\r\nWhile open source as an operational paradigm certainly has been having exceptional success against proprietary and closed-software models in the recent past, in my opinion, a lot more thought need to be given and experimentations done before the emergence of viable revenue models for the free &amp; open source models that can successfully compete with the current proprietary software revenue model. Some specifics of the business models are emerging fast, but it will take a few years for the market to test each of these out and hopefully, the fittest will survive.\r\n\r\nA site that focuses exclusively on <b><a href=\"�http:\/\/www.follars.com�\" rel=\"nofollow\">revenue models from open source is Follars.com – Free, Open-source Dollars<\/a><\/b>!\r\n\r\nEc @ <a href=\"�http:\/\/www.eit.in�\" rel=\"nofollow\">IT, Software Database @ eIT.in<\/a>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Nice article, thanks

Making revenues from free & open source software is one of the most frequently asked questions these days. While there have been a few successful examples of companies (like MySQL, Red Hat etc) which are making money, I’d surmise that these are still very early days for open source revenue & profit models.

While open source as an operational paradigm certainly has been having exceptional success against proprietary and closed-software models in the recent past, in my opinion, a lot more thought need to be given and experimentations done before the emergence of viable revenue models for the free & open source models that can successfully compete with the current proprietary software revenue model. Some specifics of the business models are emerging fast, but it will take a few years for the market to test each of these out and hopefully, the fittest will survive.

A site that focuses exclusively on revenue models from open source is Follars.com – Free, Open-source Dollars!

Ec @ IT, Software Database @ eIT.in

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]]> By: Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » On the Strategic Value of IT http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-8945 Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » On the Strategic Value of IT Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:07:30 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-8945 [...] Second, there is no doubt that commoditisation of ICT is increasing, and the speed of that commoditisation is also increasing. But the commoditisation of ICT does not mean a consequent loss of strategic value. All it means is that ICT will gently shift from being a With object to a Because Of object. Chris Messina has a good post on this, working off Doc’s snowballs. [Yes I have linked to this post before, it’s good enough for me to do it again.] [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8945','Confused Of Calcutta &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; On the Strategic Value of IT'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8945','Confused Of Calcutta &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; On the Strategic Value of IT','&#91;...&#93; Second, there is no doubt that commoditisation of ICT is increasing, and the speed of that commoditisation is also increasing. But the commoditisation of ICT does not mean a consequent loss of strategic value. All it means is that ICT will gently shift from being a With object to a Because Of object. Chris Messina has a good post on this, working off Doc&#8217;s snowballs. &#91;Yes I have linked to this post before, it&#8217;s good enough for me to do it again.&#93; &#91;...&#93;'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] Second, there is no doubt that commoditisation of ICT is increasing, and the speed of that commoditisation is also increasing. But the commoditisation of ICT does not mean a consequent loss of strategic value. All it means is that ICT will gently shift from being a With object to a Because Of object. Chris Messina has a good post on this, working off Doc’s snowballs. [Yes I have linked to this post before, it’s good enough for me to do it again.] [...]
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]]> By: Why BarCamp is a Community Mark at FactoryCity http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-4450 Why BarCamp is a Community Mark at FactoryCity Tue, 30 May 2006 02:14:41 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-4450 [...] Look, I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably have to keep saying it again and again, but once you go open, you can never go back. Nor is there a half-way point down the rabbit hole. [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4450','Why BarCamp is a Community Mark at FactoryCity'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4450','Why BarCamp is a Community Mark at FactoryCity','&#91;...&#93; Look, I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll probably have to keep saying it again and again, but once you go open, you can never go back. Nor is there a half-way point down the rabbit hole. &#91;...&#93;'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] Look, I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably have to keep saying it again and again, but once you go open, you can never go back. Nor is there a half-way point down the rabbit hole. [...]
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]]> By: chris macrae http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2911 chris macrae Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:38:55 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2911 Yup unless our 22 year tracking of collaboration story - around the net as ultimate revolutionary adventure of humanity is found to be mathematically incorrect - and no mathematician has yet challenged it, open source "every which way" should be the belief that unites the world's peoples. It's all our DNA (you cannot open source if governed by a single loop such as top-down only) passports to there being a 22nd Century for our grand children There are some exercises to look at the collaboration transparency and trust-flows we need which may extend beyond the compass of pure open source (depending how much of a System of System of System of ...) you already visualise when you use the term OS Because webs or networks are S of S of S of... ,nature takes great umbrage to human beings who block what previously she had global village control before our scaling up of pollution and waste bothering her- indeed her value multiplying rule has always been the very open one of ensure one system's waste output is another's energy input; she wonders why we have made such a slow start in photosynthesis of energy- a source that literally cleans up carbon the more of the sun you use to generate it through algae because of nature's quirk as ultimate open source networker , many other waves of collaboration will hit this 1984-2024 (the first to be worldwide networked) generation all of which will do exponentially (http://exponentials.blogspot.com) calamitous harm if we globally block them - these include please: open source health, open source enough for every global village to cross-culturally sustain its way (subcomponents of which seem to include open source learning, ending systemisatied corruption/poverty, safety) At the core of transparency mapping , and so open source, there seems to be an open molecule of productivities and demands designed around the conflict resolving maths of enabling all to openly participate, to question the greatest future gravitaional risk any side may be about to knowingly or blindly impose on another; The troubling inconvenience of knowing nature's simplicity becomes evident when you realise it is possible for mankind to design audits, economics etc around an opposite maths of the biggest power gets bigger - and which of these 2 games do you see being legislated to monopoly rule over peoples everywhere today? Laws that close sources are not just assasine, they are how we could define terror's lurking epicentre if we truly understood how to map networks http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2911','chris macrae'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2911','chris macrae','Yup unless our 22 year tracking of collaboration story - around the net as ultimate revolutionary adventure of humanity is found to be mathematically incorrect - and no mathematician has yet challenged it, open source \"every which way\" should be the belief that unites the world\'s peoples. It\'s all our DNA (you cannot open source if governed by a single loop such as top-down only) passports to there being a 22nd Century for our grand children\r\n\r\nThere are some exercises to look at the collaboration transparency and trust-flows we need which may extend beyond the compass of pure open source (depending how much of a System of System of System of ...) you already visualise when you use the term OS\r\n\r\nBecause webs or networks are S of S of S of... ,nature takes great umbrage to human beings who block what previously she had global village control before our scaling up of pollution and waste bothering her- indeed her value multiplying rule has always been the very open one of ensure one system\'s waste output is another\'s energy input; she wonders why we have made such a slow start in photosynthesis of energy- a source that literally cleans up carbon the more of the sun you use to generate it through algae\r\n\r\nbecause of nature\'s quirk as ultimate open source networker , many other waves of collaboration will hit this 1984-2024 (the first to be worldwide networked) generation all of which will do exponentially (http:\/\/exponentials.blogspot.com) calamitous harm if we globally block them - these include please: open source health, open source enough for every global village to cross-culturally sustain its way (subcomponents of which seem to include open source learning, ending systemisatied corruption\/poverty, safety)\r\n\r\nAt the core of transparency mapping , and so open source, there seems to be an open molecule of productivities and demands designed around the conflict resolving maths of enabling all to openly participate, to question the greatest future gravitaional risk any side may be about to knowingly or blindly impose on another; \r\n\r\nThe troubling inconvenience of knowing nature\'s simplicity becomes evident when you realise it is possible for mankind to design audits, economics etc around an opposite maths of the biggest power gets bigger - and which of these 2 games do you see being legislated to monopoly rule over peoples everywhere today? Laws that close sources are not just assasine, they are how we could define terror\'s lurking epicentre if we truly understood how to map networks\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/goodwillwars.blogspot.com'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Yup unless our 22 year tracking of collaboration story - around the net as ultimate revolutionary adventure of humanity is found to be mathematically incorrect - and no mathematician has yet challenged it, open source “every which way” should be the belief that unites the world’s peoples. It’s all our DNA (you cannot open source if governed by a single loop such as top-down only) passports to there being a 22nd Century for our grand children

There are some exercises to look at the collaboration transparency and trust-flows we need which may extend beyond the compass of pure open source (depending how much of a System of System of System of …) you already visualise when you use the term OS

Because webs or networks are S of S of S of… ,nature takes great umbrage to human beings who block what previously she had global village control before our scaling up of pollution and waste bothering her- indeed her value multiplying rule has always been the very open one of ensure one system’s waste output is another’s energy input; she wonders why we have made such a slow start in photosynthesis of energy- a source that literally cleans up carbon the more of the sun you use to generate it through algae

because of nature’s quirk as ultimate open source networker , many other waves of collaboration will hit this 1984-2024 (the first to be worldwide networked) generation all of which will do exponentially (http://exponentials.blogspot.com) calamitous harm if we globally block them - these include please: open source health, open source enough for every global village to cross-culturally sustain its way (subcomponents of which seem to include open source learning, ending systemisatied corruption/poverty, safety)

At the core of transparency mapping , and so open source, there seems to be an open molecule of productivities and demands designed around the conflict resolving maths of enabling all to openly participate, to question the greatest future gravitaional risk any side may be about to knowingly or blindly impose on another;

The troubling inconvenience of knowing nature’s simplicity becomes evident when you realise it is possible for mankind to design audits, economics etc around an opposite maths of the biggest power gets bigger - and which of these 2 games do you see being legislated to monopoly rule over peoples everywhere today? Laws that close sources are not just assasine, they are how we could define terror’s lurking epicentre if we truly understood how to map networks

http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com

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]]> By: A http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2790 A Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:02:29 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2790 How do you get your tags to be displayed right on top of the post?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2790','A'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2790','A','How do you get your tags to be displayed right on top of the post?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> How do you get your tags to be displayed right on top of the post?
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]]> By: MaxTheITpro http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2782 MaxTheITpro Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:38:21 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2782 Wow! Excellent analogies galore. I will have to copy this quote and place it on my blog. I'm sure if these words were reapeated to key decision makers, perhaps open source would be that much further along.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2782','MaxTheITpro'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2782','MaxTheITpro','Wow! Excellent analogies galore.\r\nI will have to copy this quote and place it on my blog.\r\nI\'m sure if these words were reapeated to key decision makers, perhaps open source would be that much further along.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Wow! Excellent analogies galore.
I will have to copy this quote and place it on my blog.
I’m sure if these words were reapeated to key decision makers, perhaps open source would be that much further along.
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]]> By: 2036 AD ...... http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2608 2036 AD ...... Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:04:29 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/18/because-of-open-source/#comment-2608 <strong>Open source is not economic, it is cultural...</strong> Thanks to Confused of Calcutta for pointing me here.  This is the most eloquent description of Open Source I have seen.  It also happens to apply beautifully to net neutrality too.  If the telcoms meet their objective, the water example....<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2608','2036 AD ......'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2608','2036 AD ......','<strong>Open source is not economic, it is cultural...<\/strong>\n\nThanks to Confused of Calcutta for pointing me here.&nbsp; This is the most eloquent description of Open Source I have seen.&nbsp; It also happens to apply beautifully to net neutrality too.&nbsp; If the telcoms meet their objective, the water example....'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Open source is not economic, it is cultural…

Thanks to Confused of Calcutta for pointing me here.  This is the most eloquent description of Open Source I have seen.  It also happens to apply beautifully to net neutrality too.  If the telcoms meet their objective, the water example….

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