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ZDNet UK: Sun: Open Source Is About Self-Interest

“For open source to prosper, people need to stop thinking of it
as ‘free’ and instead think of it as ‘connected capitalism,’
delegates at an open-source conference in London were told on
Tuesday.

“Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun
Microsystems’ chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, said that
open source had been focused for too long on sharing code instead
of what he called ‘the enrichment of the commons…'”


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