Marc Fleury Interview: "The Myth of Open-Source"

Marc Fleury of JBoss has been interviewed by BusinessWeek on what he coins "The Myth of Open Source" in the new age of the open source start-up company. "... No one is going to work for free. That's the myth of open-source. [New open-source startups are] trying to buy distribution. And maybe they'll succeed, because if you give something away for free, people will come. That's the only part of the model they're replicating: Give it for free and charge for the service. The point is, do you have enough volume? If that's your model, you monetize 1% to 2% of the user base, ergo you need a pretty large user base to have scalability."

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