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Does Open Source Have Commercial Viability

7 January 2008 - 6:35pm — Bevan

"Does Open Source Have Commercial Viability?" is a response to my review of Xero.com by Stuart Bale, Product Manager at MYOB. Today he left a comment to let me know about it.

This isn't my reply -- I don't think I can be bothered. But I know there are a lot of people that disagree and care enough to reply.

Comments

9 January 2008 - 9:31am — Stuart (not verified)

No Kidding!

Bevan,

It seems the troops have appeared to defend the cause! If only there was someone in the non-Open Source world who actually cared enough to comment in my favour ;-).

Where's Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer or Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison when you need them.

Stuart

9 January 2008 - 10:26am — Bevan

No hard feelings eh

Bill Gates
Resigning, because he doesn't want to take the blame when Microsoft implodes because it can't compete with the open source methodology
Steve Ballmer
Still ignorant
Steve Jobs
Busy adopting open source (like MS, MYOB and many others should have done too)
Larry Elison
Who's that?

Seriously though, I had no idea that folk would respond like that. I haven't been following the discussion, but I hope that it is eye-opening for all involved. And I hope there are no hard feelings. :)

8 January 2008 - 8:08pm — Bevan

Wow! Comments have exploded

Wow! Comments have exploded on Stuart's Blog: http://stuartbale.blogspot.com/2008/01/does-open-source-have-commercial....