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the elusive open source business model
In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees of the development of Firefox. I.B.M. has been a major backer of Linux, helping to raise it as a competitor to Microsoft’s Windows and other proprietary…
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Software Design and time synchronization
I have a blog post up at fsmlabs.com about our TimeKeeper software for time synchronization. TimeKeeper is currently aimed at financial trading markets, but we also hope to market it to electric power distribution and transmission engineers who have a similar need for precise time synchronization within substations and for instrumentation. There are also applications…
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Montavista thoughts
Bill “Linux Pundit” Weinberg explains: Business Model and Execution: Many MontaVista watchers have argued that the company’s business model was essentially flawed. […] Such a model based on building with and for open source can devolve into less attractive high-overhead packaged service business in the face of a rising value line. […] The model did…
