[ Thanks to Jay
MacDonald for this link. ]
“Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them
this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or
severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace?“With little academic attention focused on this question,
Harvard Business School professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon
Casadesus-Masanell decided to dive in. Most research to date into
the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management
issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell chose to
explore the fundamental competitive dynamics question: Will OSS
ever displace traditional software from its market leadership
position…?”