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By: andrew aitken

Very good question and analysis. As the senior parter at an open source management consulting firm and fairly embedded in the VC community we have conducted due diligence on a number of open source...

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By: Jason Haislmaier

I agree — good post. I also echo Andrew’s last comment. It is increasingly unlikely that any company (in a technology industry or otherwise) can avoid open source entirely. As a result, at least on...

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By: Brad Feld

A friend just dropped me a note saying that Microsoft has recently articulated their view on how they approach acquiring companies that have open source in their code. The summary of their current rule...

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By: Jon Smirl

There are two fairly independent worlds using open source. First there is open source software, like JBoss and Redhat. Second there is the embedded device world. In the embedded world there are...

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By: Rajiv

The secret sauce is no longer the software anymore. The open source software projects can easily beat the crap out of proprietary software anyday. And for entrepreneurs like us, it makes perfect sense...

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By: Ron Fredericks

Good points were raised in this post. I thought readers of this post might be interested in one of the first open source community software projects for an embedded device - all the way back in 1981....

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