Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Venture Capital: Open Source Startups Are Hot--Too Hot? | Linux Today

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Venture Capital: Open Source Startups Are Hot–Too Hot?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 24, 2005

“At the WSA Investment Forum earlier this week, Frank Catalano
joked that he had discovered at least one way to make money in the
burgeoning open source movement.

“The technology guru, who was moderating a panel discussion on
the topic, then held up a brochure from a law firm that was
marketing seminars on open source software…”

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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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