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Open Source has arrived... where's the money?

Uh oh. It seems my blog posting frequency is dropping even below my modest minimum target of one per month. I didn't post anything at all in my summer vacation. Well, a small child plus a house to re-decorate does take its share of energy I guess.

I thought I'd still follow up with were we left before holidays:

What I'm left with is the question: Are we there? Is this it? Is all that is left just some minor cleaning up after the big battle has already been won? I think it might be. For me, somehow the day I read the news of the release of Symbian as Open Source marks the milestone when it was clear that we had "won". [...]

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Paying the community to test your software

Is this a step towards companies opening up their source code in return for higher quality software? READ MORE

Getting Rich Fast ?

Lukas Kahwe Smith has an awesome post titled "Open Source is not making enough rich people richer" .
Indeed, there is much talk that the VC's , the Investors and different others aren't seeing the big money fast enough, according to them that is.
Does that mean that the open source industry is going bad ? Does that mean you can't make a living when working in the Open Source industry ?

Absolutely not, as he points out there are uncountable people gaining a good living with Open Source, developers working on the different projects as their day job, system administrators managing open source platforms. We are helping out customers to implement Open Source and Free Software. And there are numerous other Drupal, Mysql, Xen, shops out there. Some have their own open source products and create a business on top of …

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BusinessWeek on Open Source at Red Hat

Whitehurst is focused on growing Red Hat's top line; will open source purists cheer him on? READ MORE

Legal teeth for open source license

Artistic license terms enforced by US Court of Appeal READ MORE

Court rules that open source software is protected under copyright law

Could the ruling open the door to open source companies joining the anti-piracy Business Software Alliance? READ MORE

Is open source really unusable?

Why generalizations about open source product usability don't apply to vendor-sponsored open source projects READ MORE

Is open source really unusable?

Why generalizations about open source product usability don't apply to vendor-sponsored open source projects READ MORE

I hate that I like Apple products

Why do we continue to lust after Apple products when Apple treats us like two-year olds? READ MORE

Are vendors afraid of open source?

Find out whether management at Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and IBM think that open source is a threat or an opportunity. READ MORE

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