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Interesting thoughts on building a business selling open-source software

by Brett Wangman — last modified Aug 11, 2009 11:40 AM

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I have started reading Matt Asay's blog on CNET for the last couple months.

Matt's article today is a nice twist. Turning the thoughts and advice of someone who is trying to help proprietary software companies compete with open source developers and using them as food for thought for businesses selling open source based solutions.

Definitely worth the read: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10307348-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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