"FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO 412
liraz writes "Stuart Cohen, former CEO of Open Source Development Labs, has written an op-ed on BusinessWeek claiming that the traditional open source business model, which relies solely on support and service revenue streams, is failing to meet the expectations of investors. He discusses the 'great paradox' of the FOSS business model, saying: 'For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the software industry lately, I have some bad news. The open source business model is broken. Open source code is generally great code, not requiring much support. So open source companies that rely on support and service alone are not long for this world.' Cohen goes on to outline the beginnings of a business model that can work for FOSS going forward."
Traditional? (Score:5, Funny)
...the traditional open source business model...
It's been around long enough to be "traditional"?
Re:"Open Source" is not a business model (Score:1, Funny)
It isn't a broken business model. It isn't a business model.
But Jonathan Schwartz's ponytail says it is fabulous!
Re:Why does nobody understand why this doesn't wor (Score:1, Funny)
Bankers don't, on the other hand, create free, zero-income banks.
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Yeah, just negative income banks.
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I see you're new comer to the current economic environment.
Re:Well, duh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, duh (Score:3, Funny)
the nakedness problem
If you have a nakedness problem, you're living too far from the equator.
Re:Well, duh (Score:5, Funny)
That is interesting. I have not seen that kind of error in forever. I did put that kind of error into one of our in house programs intentionally.
We had a clerical person that kept putting their machine into 640x480 so she could have big letters on the screen. Well my program just couldn't work well in that small of a screen. No matter how many times we told her to just pick a bigger font she wouldn't do it.
So I got tired of her complaining about my program so I just put in a check and the program put up an error message if the screen wasn't at least 800x600 and refused to run.
She never seemed to get it that I made the program do it but she obeyed and set her screen to a better resolution.
Re:Well, duh (Score:3, Funny)
Even so...it STILL had to be better than working with Ticketmaster...
you're a dick (Score:1, Funny)
resetting fonts stil leaves many menus buttons etc at the same small size.
the solution is to get her a bigger monitor. but no, you had to go swing your computer dick around and prove how big a man you are. congrats, you are the big bad IT guy and she is a lowly dumb secretary.
are you happy now you fudouchebag?