> government funding is accepted as the appropriate mechanism to promote
open
> source (it hasn't been, this is a gedanken experiment), how will that
model
> be brought to fruition in the United States?
Gov't funding is a good way to incubate open source, but it is not a long
term solution and it requires a far amount of enlightenment for open source
to be able to compete with other approaches for funding. My guess is that
in the US it will not be funded, at least in obvious ways, by government
because the software industry is too big and has too much to lose....so it
will find its way into the system in other ways....via Application Service
Providers and others who have an economic incentive to adopt open source.
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Gage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Business plans
> There really should be a thread on this list about business plans (I
> believe I am echoing Thomas). I suppose that, while code may be open
> source, business plans may be considered to be proprietary. In addition,
> there are purists, I believe, who will say that any mention of business
> plans goes against the spirit if not the letter of open
> source. Nevertheless, software costs money. Where will it come from?
>
> Two questions interest me. One, what is OIO's business model? This last
is an interesting
> question due to the existence of VISTA/CPRS which almost perfectly
embodies
> the model, but which is commonly accepted to be doomed to remain forever
> within the boundaries that it currently occupies.
>
> I am referring here strictly to business models. All my annoying comments
> about Java etc. are not on the table.
>
> John
>
>
