Serving Two Markets
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| One of the challenges open source companies have is that you serve two
| distinct markets: your customers as well as non-paying community users.
| Paradoxically, the non-paying users can be the most vocal and demanding.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/08/serving_two_mar.html?source=rss
Community vs. Corporate Linux: The Coming Divide
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| No matter how hard we try to down play it, the patent threats and deals that
| are being made because of them are hurting the community - it's a simple
| fact. The real trick will be to see who sticks this out and who falls back to
| closed source alternatives, as we see Linux getting split with IP politics.
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http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7988
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