Making Money With Open Source, Part 2: Only One Chasm

Bernard Golden is convinced there are two chasms to cross for a commercial open source company and I believe there is only one. As I wrote in my recent blog post, “There is no such thing as commercial open source,” the attempt to ride the title wave of open source into a magical business domain called “commercial open source” adds more confusion and dilutes the core value proposition of open source. Let’s not confuse the success of well managed companies like MySQL, SugarCRM, MuleSource and others with validating the commercial open source model.

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