27
03
2008
OSBC Report: Jim Whitehurst and the “fundamental good” of open source
Posted by: admin in Business and Politics
(Credit: Matt Asay)Last year’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) was opened up by Red Hat’s then CEO, Matthew Szulik. This year we’re hearing from Red Hat’s new CEO, Jim Whitehurst. Jim is very different from Matthew, but there are some similarities.
Two components of the power of the open-source model that I didn’t originally recognize:
- Public policy value of open source, especially outside the US.
- You don’t have any barrier or property or scarcity, which makes it tough to make money. But from the customer’s point of view, this means that you’re having to earn your renewal every single day of the contract.
On the first point:
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