Great article on what open source actually means to Microsoft (it’s disruptive) and big business in general that doesn’t subscribe to the open model. The open model allows my startup costs to be zero and I will probably try and monetize the business without selling a a product or a software package. Notice the lack of need for anything Microsoft related whatsoever.
In sum, Microsoft still doesn’t understand the Internet, the ultimate child of the open-source movement. It is the Internet that simultaneously makes Google and open source so brilliantly destructive and disruptive to Microsoft’s future.
via CNET
