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InfoWorld: Back to the Future–The 451 Group’s ‘Cashing in on Open Source’

By Matt Asay

“The other day I noticed a frightening thing: I was starting to
dress like my six-year old son. Isaac is a great kid, but he tends
to make weird clothes combinations, combinations that I
subconsciously was starting to find cool….

“In similar manner, the software industry’s BigCo’s are
increasingly dressing up like the startups bent on supplanting
them. I’ve noticed this before, but it wasn’t until I started
reading The 451 Group’s excellent report–Cashing In on Open
Source–that it really hit home…”


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