“The days of selling software through the traditional commercial
model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of
choice, Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation,
said at the EclipseCon 2006 conference yesterday.“Software is becoming increasingly commoditized, he said during
a keynote presentation, and more of it is available free and it is
easy to get. He cited the OpenOffice office automation package as
an example of free software that can replace Microsoft
Office…”
Computerworld: Apache’s Greg Stein Says Commercial Software Days Numbered
By
Paul Krill
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