29.04.2008
Open Source- A Slow Growth Business
Way back in 1970s and early 1980s, when companies started imposing restrictions on the programmers through copyright in order to make money by blocking rights and selling them back, the term “open source” came into being.
The main advantage for business is that open source is a good way for business to achieve far greater hold in the market.
But, with the changing scenario Nikita Ivanov in his blog “GridGain” compares the Open Source Business Model with that of the Traditional Business Model and explains how open source is a slow-growth business model with hundreds of open source projects dying-off on a daily basis.
Commercial pressures make traditional software developer pay more attention to customer’s requirements than to security requirements, since such features are invisible to the customer.
Software experts and researchers, identify the unclear process, the late defect discovery and the lack of empirical evidence as the most important problems as far as the open source’s ability to produce quality systems is concerned.
