Ten things the world can learn from open source
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| # Adoption precedes monetization.
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| # Lots of customers is a greater barrier to entry than lots of intellectual
| property (IP).
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| # A business' brand is its greatest asset in driving sales.
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| # Lower barriers to evaluating and using your product.
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| # Sell customer value, not vendor value.
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| # Product use should breed re-use and further sharing.
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| # A collective product best serves a collective market.
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| # Invest in service and your product, not sales.
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| # Transparency breeds trust, and trust breeds revenue.
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| # People make a business.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9766449-16.html
SugarCRM 5 Pulling Against Closed Source CRM
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| Though Roberts has chosen GPLv3 for his open source license, he doesn't
| expect the new license to put him at odds with Microsoft.
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| In early 2006, SugarCRM signed a deal with Microsoft enabling the open
| source CRM to run on Windows.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3696301
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