Learnings from OSBC
Posted March 26, 2008 under opensource 
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I think I’ll call it “Jon Williams’ Law of Open Source”. But maybe that wouldn’t be fair as others have pointed this out before (including R0ml)…
Basically the point Jon was making at the end of his keynote was that the only way customers will continue to pay for open source software if the open source project that they are paying for doesn’t mature. Or in other words, if your company has an open source based business model, keep breaking the software and people will keep paying you.
Depressing
[...] Williams of Kaplan Test suggested in his keynote, as Dirk Hohndel captures, that the more happy he is with his commercial open-source software, the less likely he will be to [...]