My previous post on free software business models got some really great feedback, but I think that I was arguing against a straw man that I’ve built up myself. That straw man is the “pure open source start-up”  – and I’m not the only person tilting at this particular windmill. The false assumption here is [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]