Open sourcing your startup – a good idea?

Novell VP Miguel de Icaza recently stated that “making a successful open source business has been incredibly difficult” and “If your livelihood depends on the product that you’re selling, until you can figure how you’re going to make money on that thing, I say, keep it proprietary.” Now, while these statements may sound as though open source is a terrible business model, let’s look a bit closer before we decide.
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Microsoft releases .NET Micro FW as Open Source

This might be old news for you by now (first announced yesterday morning), but Microsoft has decided to release version 4.0 as open source, licensed under the Apache license. For the whole story, read it here.

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