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[Alessandro Rubini]

Tra tutte le cose interessanti che vengono passate qui, mi sento di
aggiungere questa.

Tim O'Reilly, su fsb a crynwr.com:

> To me, Eric's key business model point has always been that more
> software is built for use than for sale.  All of the most successful
> businesses in the open source realm are *users* of open source.  The
> entire ISP industry is based on selling access to services (email, web,
> domain name services) that are based on open source.  Not to mention
> businesses like Yahoo! that build their higher level services on an open
> software platform.
> 
> I find myself completely baffled by the failure of the hardcore open
> source community (or really the free software community, which focuses
> so much on Linux) to acknowledge and own its real business successes,
> while endlessly focusing on the markets (the windows desktop) where open
> source not only has a steep uphill climb but also a less compelling
> business model.  We continually play into Microsoft's hands by treating
> their business model as the given.  All the while, they have been
> working to come up with a proprietary alternative to the internet
> technologies that *have* been the basis of open source business models
> so they can knock them out.
> 
> It's a complete reversal of what should have happened.  Now, once again,
> the open source community is playing catch up (at least in public
> perception, because as usual there are lots of interesting, powerful,
> grassroots projects doing real work in this area), because Microsoft has
> articulated a vision of the future we were in fact building towards,
> while we were busy reinforcing the view that they were the ones to beat.
> 
> Open source has long moved beyond Windows in the markets and businesses
> it's created.  We just don't acknowledge our own impact.

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