{"id":313,"date":"2010-06-13T21:15:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T05:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreanolanusse.com\/en\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-06-13T21:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T05:15:57","slug":"why-no-billion-dollar-open-source-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andreanolanusse.com\/en\/why-no-billion-dollar-open-source-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you attended on of my presentation where someone asked me about Open Source you probably know what I think, in summary I think Open Source is a good way to help people to learn technologies and share knowledge, a good social and academic tool, but not something to make money, it brings more negative impact in the market them any other think. If you are trying to make money saying your product is Open Source, you are dead.<\/p>\n<p>Navigation Through the Internet this Sunday night I found this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworlduk.com\/toolbox\/open-source\/blogs\/index.cfm?entryid=3010&amp;blogid=14\"><strong>&#8220;Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>, a nice interview with Red Hat&#8217;s CEO Jim Whitehurs published by Computer World UK, take a look and see, it is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you attended on of my presentation where someone asked me about Open Source you probably know what I think, in summary I think Open Source is a good way to help people to learn technologies and share knowledge, a good social and academic tool, but not something to make money, it brings more negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","tag-open-source"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? 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