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An Explanation of the Economic of Open Source
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| When I was in University, not long after discovering a thing called "Linux"
| and all the wonderful free software that came with it, I fell in love with
| Open Source. The ethics of openness and meritocracy really appealed to me. It
| just seemed to me to be the "right" way of doing things.
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| However it was a source of some good humoured tension between myself and my
| colleagues, circa Red Hat 6.0. Reaction against the idea of open source
| basically ranged from "anything given away for free can't be any good",
| to "very idealistic but it has no future since there is no way to make a
| living off of 'free'".
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http://climbing-the-hill.blogspot.com/2009/08/explanation-of-economic-of-open-source.html
Recent:
Are Free Bandwidth And Distribution Bad? Ask Susan Boyle
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| But, you have folks at the NY Times who seem to think that it's a bad thing,
| because the producers of the TV show aren't making any advertising revenue
| from the clip being on YouTube. No, but they've created a huge singing
| sensation that is getting attention from millions of people. If they can't
| figure out how to make money off of that in the long run, they don't deserve
| to be in business.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090525/1431344995.shtml
The Economics of Open Access Publishing
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| Open Access Publishing is the free distribution of research, whether it is as
| a pre-print (working paper) or a peer-reviewed article.
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http://blog.repec.org/2009/04/24/the-economics-of-open-access-publishing/
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