ONLamp: The March to Open Source: LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 Wrapup

“Two sales people (the kind of staff most evident at LinuxWorld)
from two different companies approached me within a 24-hour period
to say they want to talk to me about making part or all of their
product open source. I was flattered to be consulted, being neither
a system designer nor a marketing expert. But before I directed
them to others I thought would have more direct experience, I had
some interesting conversations that laid out some of the
issues.

“The determination of a company to open-source its product is at
least as significant as the decision of a customer to use
open-source software. When a company entrusts its core value to the
community, and declares that it can make a living by doing so, the
movement has a major gain…”

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