This is a very interesting article http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0004.304, in a nutshell to me the message it bring forth is: how to turn a system developed by students into a full functional commerce business ( The same "evil" that is so written about software propreitary companies, yet the same method employed for free software for the same commerce? ). I now understand why, besides our so commited PC-BSD person ( and I have total respect for him, sorry forgot his name ), no one else writes code from start but just tinkers with existing libraries. Its so Open Source. Įommercial gain through software made at actually competing commercially with proprietary software. The Open Source business model strongly shows pure commerce because the end target is just competing for commerce of the software market share, yet it is the same commerce that was opposed through marketing malice of "BSOD", "Licensing", "Security Flaws". "Free", "Perpetual" etc.

The question I ask is myself this: Suppose one day as a proprietary software developer, I setup an outlet. This software program functionality I wrote took many months to create, thus am looking at some commercial value to cover costs and try and make a some profit, if it is successful. Next to my outlet, arrives someone who saw the potential of my software and found a free alternative whose source code has been opened for small touch-ups. He/she is looking at the same market segment as I am but offering the software for free, with only charges for support. How would I deal with this? I wonder how proprietary software vendors deal with such situations? This would be a commerce war! Is this why we have no serious developers in KE, given the software market share, why develop then? :-))