Open Source Is Not Just a Marketing Term
Posted: August 19, 2009
By: cmswire.com
Even before economies around the world got into a bit of a bind, the term open source was growing more and more popular. Since so many now equate open source with free, savings, cost efficiency and other such fiscal positives, the number of commercial software companies hitching the term to their products has increased. But are all of them actually doing open source in the fuller sense of the term?
Eric Barroca, CEO of open source CMS vendor Nuxeo (news, site) recently blogged about this issue. When he refers to commercial open source, he’s talking about a business model based on three “pillars.” The first two are relatively straightforward:……[read entire story]
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