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Increasing Ecosystem Co-operation

This is an article accompanying the presentation given by Dave Neary to MAPOS 08 in London on December 9th 2008.
Moving the Mobile industry from purchasing to co-development in free software communities
Recently, Matt Aslett wrote an article about the way that attitudes to free software evolve over time within a company, using a graphic he got […]

Posted: December 20th, 2008 under Business, Community, GNOME, Mobile.
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Jerry Maguire on the future of the free software industry

Suddenly, it was all clear. The answer was fewer clients. Less money. Caring for them and caring for ourselves.
Jerry Maguire

“Fewer clients. Less money.” Sacrilege in a world where the goal is to grow the first billion dollar “open source vendor”. But that chimera that Matt Asay holds a torch for may never come. Free software […]

Posted: October 24th, 2008 under Business, Community.
Comments: 6