This month's HBR has a case-study on this very topic. Open Source: Salvation or Suicide?
Although I couldn't find a web locatable one (you need to pay $$$). Here's LJ's review of the same [http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/mini-review-open-source-emharvard-business-reviewem] Although the case is commented by "experts", I think only one of the "expert" has any idea of what open source really is -- John Schwarz -- and he's bending the commet to show how great Sun is releasing Java in GPL and Solaris as "free". :p The others are twits :( The final guy said, "open source" programmers get their code by stealing from proprietory ones, bah! And that "open source" code stands to get sued for patent violations, which the "open source" programs won't protect you against. Those of you who have a copy of HBR, please go through it and let us know the response. It's good to get the community's viewpoint on how biz should be carried out using "open source" (aka Free Software). No worries, Mahesh Aravind Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur! ----- http://maravind.blogspot.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
