[Opensource] You just have to be better

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I occasionally need to explain the economic model that underpins FOSS. This
is a nice article that explains some of the success behind Red Hat and other
companies that produce free software. I particularly liked the last quote.

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3664736

If you don't trust your customers and have to treat them like criminals and
have to continually tighten the screws, if you have to keep everything a big
secret, if your product line is so unattractive you have to force people to
purchase anything and lock them in to have even a chance of keeping them,
perhaps the problem is not them derned defective customers, but your
approach to running a business.

Regards Roland

-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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