Is money a good measure of OSS success?
Is money a good measure of OSS success? In our free market society, I believe it is. This does not minimize the importance of other measures of success.
Let's look a little deeper at OSS impact on software spending. I can think of 3 situations:
1. OSS vendor revenue from using OSS with support/license
2. OSS usage erodes Traditional software revenue
3. OSS usage creates new users because of minimized barriers to adoption
Clearly, software revenue shifts from Traditional software to OSS when customers decide to use OSS with support/license. This spending would be counted in the 1.8%.
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