What a Layperson Can Gain From an Enterprise Open Source Conference

First the bad news. Not every open source company is all about sharing and making the world a better place. Indeed, there are some very bad players in the open source business community, mainly companies that use the “open core” model to lock clients into their proprietary addons. The good news? You’ll quickly learn that these “bad guys” are pretty much known by the “good guys” and that the good guys outnumber the bad guys by something like a ten to one ratio.