derek abdinor » open source http://derek.abdinor.co.za online disclosure Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:45:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/06/15/open-source-economics-driving-web-20-innovation/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/06/15/open-source-economics-driving-web-20-innovation/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:27:04 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/wordpress/?p=17 Fitting I should have stumbled upon this article about Open Source Business Models while waiting to board for the Balkans.

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We are seeing companies prefer open source solutions (Drupal, Joomla) over proprietary crap. Why? Rather have 300 000 developers behind your product than 5. Another thing is that prop software is so difficult to port or extend, you have to imagineer yourself into the original guys mind, and really: do you want to?

this is a brilliant move by facebook. Software guys may code widgets for FireFox and Yahoo!, Drupal and even PHP to up their geek credits, but what if you can code on facebook and impress ALL your friends? For the college crowd that make up the numbers at FB, these guys will be up all night and facebook is going to be the next public space (ww2?)

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