Comments on: Stanford and Harvard teach businesses how to squash open source

Two professors from America's elite graduate schools teach business executives how to combat open source, thereby indicating that open source is a serious threat.

[botchagalupe]

Get me their address and I will send them both a copy of Wikinomics...

[David Gerard]

@botchagalupe - no no, you need to sell it to them for $48,921!

Mind you, free software <a href="http://notnews.today.com/2008/09/22/free-software-foundation-announces-gnuphone/">frequently does itself no favours</a>.

[David Gerard]

ew, comment fail!

[diogratia]

From reading the published paper it appears the reason proprietary software wins over open source is by getting to market first. If that's the only way proprietary software can win, more power to them. When proprietary software gets there first it 's price still gets capped by open source alternatives. There's also the flavor of market exclusion when proprietary software is there first, patents and locked in services come to mind. The GPL comes to mind as a defense to 'embrace and extend' as a proprietary market capture when open source gets to the market first.

[debiangnu]

Vistas GUI was based off of gnome and is based on open source. they are using open source for modeling . as with xbmc soon . there will be a Microsoft version . stolen code that is . innovation is stolen from the gnu .. beer fart

[debiangnu]

stock market . fed reserve > this

I will close with Thomas Jefferson's Warning To America : "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." Written by Jefferson in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802).

[Pishkado]

One is tempted to wonder what software firms they've gotten big consulting fees from.

[odubtaig]

The kind that hire institutes whose primary research area is The Bleeding Obvious.

[debeumers]

The fact that they teach businesses about how to deal with open source is enough proof that commercial companies are afraid of open source

[debeumers]

The fact that they teach businesses about how to deal with open source is enough proof that commercial companies are afraid of open source

[Angus_Thermopyle]

So, if I understand the article correctly...

....$50K buys you the sound business advice "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

Nice work if you can get it!

[suleske]

Matt, thanks for the eye on academia! I posted a pretty lengthy fork of your article on my blog, intertwined with text from an interview I did over the summer with a guy who knows a thing or two about Open Source methods in business:

http://wealthmotor.com/tifi/?p=2290