Rick Fenton wrote:
> There is a series of articles called "the beast of
> complexity - a survey of software" now at www.economist.com.
> Several relate directly to open source - the third article,
> Out in the Open, particularly should be of interest.
>
Yes, Out in the Open was particularly interesting as it cast
doubt on the viability of the service model for supporting
open source. Or more properly, it might be said that a
couple of companies can make money supporting a product, but
not a whole slew of them.