The Web Economy/27
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Community OS vs Commercial OS
[edit | edit source]This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.
Topics
[edit | edit source]- A self increasing community saves a project alot from investing in marketing, branding, testing and development as well as sustenance.
- Commercial interests began to control open source projects[1] as much money can be made quickly with minimal investment[2][3] due to the energy from communities that form around them.
- Communities are allergic to commercial tendencies and often fork to maintain its openness[4].
- Forking is an important and necessary character[5] of Open Source.
Discussion
[edit | edit source]- What are the important forks and how are they doing compared with their parent projects?
- Can commercial open source be as open as community open source?
Activities
[edit | edit source]- Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
- Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
- Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/any-open-source-alternatives-to-sap-erp-635407/
- ↑ http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/surviving_throu.html
- ↑ http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/29/146201
- ↑ http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/10/forking_compier.html
- ↑ http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/10/open_sources_fu.html
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