I occasionally need to explain the economic model that underpins FOSS. Enterprise Networking Planet has 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.
"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." reference
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plakboek) wrote,
grateful
