The Melting Pot | Linux Today

The Melting Pot

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2007

“From a commercial open source company’s point-of-view, open
source is ideally the ultimate in ‘grass roots’ marketing where
people learn about the project by word-of-mouth and where they
volunteer their time and effort, resulting in a vibrant community
that benefits the company in many ways.

“While this ideal may apply to some open source projects, for
the vast majority of open source companies, it is not a case of
‘build it and they will come…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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