BusinessWeek is one of the few magazines out there that is able to reliably trigger the "that's not even wrong" reaction from me.
Open-Source is not a business model; it's an element in the business environment sure; but in and of itself it has only the most tangential relationship to the flow of money.
And yes, some companies, Sun in particular have badly botched their open-source efforts, but that's mostly because Sun is in trouble in their hardware business and still thinking that it's the mid-90's. But for every Sun having a loud and spectacular failure; there's a Google or a Facebook building their success on open-source infrastructure.
//BW is just bad, they get get facts, quotes and names wrong too often to be an accident.
Open-Source is not a business model; it's an element in the business environment sure; but in and of itself it has only the most tangential relationship to the flow of money.
And yes, some companies, Sun in particular have badly botched their open-source efforts, but that's mostly because Sun is in trouble in their hardware business and still thinking that it's the mid-90's. But for every Sun having a loud and spectacular failure; there's a Google or a Facebook building their success on open-source infrastructure.
//BW is just bad, they get get facts, quotes and names wrong too often to be an accident.