[dundee] Open source and the Adoption-Led Market

[Rick Moynihan]

Just came across this fantastic post describing (some) open source
business models:

http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/the_adoption_led_market

It's nothing really new, but I think the phrase alone is a great
contribution to the movement; it's pure MBA speak*!  Coincidentally,
it's the same point I was trying to clumsily make yesterday...

Others might be interested in the more thorough work of Yochai Benkler
on "The wealth of networks":

http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Download_PDFs_of_the_book

* The juries obviously out on whether or not this is a good thing ;-)

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Rick Moynihan
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