>
>This is the same issue as it's always been, and when all these open source
>companies were high on the hog two years ago I kept scratching my head
>wondering what their business model, I never saw selling services as a great
>idea, the cost of acquiring the dollars is to high, but to say open source is
>fading away is just silly.
>
>Open source is not really supported by companies, except to a very small
>degree.  Open source is done by people in their spare time because they want
>to.  They want to scratch an itch, they want their name in lights, they want
>the satisfaction of having done something that interested them.  I'm a linux
>software company, and we sponser some open source projects, but almost all of
>my guys also work on their spare time for free to other open source projects
>that interest them.

Which says what about the future of linux itself? Can companies run their
businesses on an OS maintained by people who do it just because they feel
like it? Is linux viable in the long term, or will it also do a fast fade?

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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