The Simple Economics of Open Source

[Justin Sheehy]

Raffael Cavallaro <raffael at mediaone.net> writes:

> Fact is, only commodity items, that are known to many programmers, are 
> open sourced. If there were sufficient demand to support a closed source 
> business, then it would have happened that way. The proof of this is the 
> BSDs, which would allow a closed source, proprietary fork at any time. 
> Hasn't happened 'cause there's no demand for such a product.

You mean like BSD/OS, from BSDI?  

It happened 9 years ago, and they've been selling it ever since.

Interesting "proof" you have there.

-Justin