The Web Economy/27

Community OS vs Commercial OS
This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

Topics

 * A self increasing community saves a project alot from investing in marketing, branding, testing and development as well as sustenance.
 * Commercial interests began to control open source projects as much money can be made quickly with minimal investment due to the energy from communities that form around them.
 * Communities are allergic to commercial tendencies and often fork to maintain its openness.
 * Forking is an important and necessary character of Open Source.

Discussion

 * What are the important forks and how are they doing compared with their parent projects?
 * Can commercial open source be as open as community open source?

Activities

 * Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
 * Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
 * Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.

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