Essential reading in open source

[mdlbear]

Innovation Happens Elsewhere -- Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel.

If you write software and would like to get your company interested in using and creating open source software, you need to do two things: First: read this book -- it's online under a Creative Commons license. Second: get your company to buy the appropriate number of copies, and scatter them around the executive suite.

Can't remember whether I originally got the link from BoingBoing or Slashdot.

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Another Open Source success story

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Mark Davis convinced his bosses to go Open Source and it has helped the company a lot. Seems Micro$quish announced they would have something like what his company produced "real soon". So no one was buying their product, not that they thought M$ product would be better, but because it was a small company and would soon fold under the M$ pressure and they didn't want to buy an orphaned product. By going open source, no one worries about losing access to the product. Interestingly they more easily got another round of funding after going open source and people are buying their support and training. And M$ seems to have gone away...

Re: Another Open Source success story

[mdlbear]

Yay! One of the biggest advantages of Open Source is that it doesn't go away as long as anybody believes in it is using it.