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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 14, 2008
They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. Lots of open source companies (RedHat, MySQL AB, Novell, Alfresco, SugarCRM, Canonical) are doing similar things. For you purists: don’t get all upset.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 20, 2008
But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. So, good news that companies are starting to see that opening their source can be done without completely cannibalizing their revenue, but I find it hard to believe that this product is going to gain a lot of traction.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 18, 2007
Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. Microsoft is a powerful company, with a lot of money in the bank, and a near ubiquitous market penetration in some quarters. make functional software).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 6, 2008
at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 2 admin 07.07.08
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 4, 2007
In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) I wonder if there’s more to learn by comparing several “good&# vs. “bad&# companies.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Other companies in the NP space are similar.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 1, 2007
Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access. Regards, Mike 2 Michelle Murrain 01.03.07
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