Beyond Nerds Bearing Gifts: The Future of the Open Source Economy

Thursday, October 22. 2009

Beyond Nerds Bearing Gifts: The Future of the Open Source Economy

This week is a busy week for events. While PostgreSQL is having its PostgreSQL West conference in Seattle, the biggest Open Source GIS conference of the year is happening in Sydney, Australia FOSS4G 2009. Sadly given our schedule and the distances of the commutes, we couldn't make either conference.

Mateusz Loskot pointed out that the video is out for Paul Ramsey's FOSS4G 2009 Keynote speech on Beyond Nerds Bearing Gifts: The Future of the Open Source Economy. I think its a very important distinction Paul makes between selling software and selling a product, that a lot of people miss when trying to evaluate the solvency of open source software.

For those who don't know Paul, he's one of the co-founders of the PostGIS project and Refractions Research.

Posted by Leo Hsu and Regina Obe in editor note, gis, postgis at 04:10 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Very interesting keynote speech - particularly the section with reference to Linux and how it has developed, with even powerful competing companies contributing. The ever growing Open Source community has to be a good thing.

#1 JamesDE (Homepage) on 2009-12-04 11:44 (Reply)

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