The Disruptive Effect of Open Source Startups
Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. It allows potential users and buyers of a software to try it, evaluate it, and understand exactly how it works because the source code is freely available. Open source companies market to developers exactly how developers would like to be marketed to – with code.
Phi Beta Iota: The open source revolution is just beginning — after open source software comes hardware, then cloud, mesh, and spectrum, then manufacturing generally and hopefully sooner than later, the provisioning tri-fecta: energy-water-food.
See Especially:
P2P Foundation Category: Open Source Everything
See Also:
Facebook Open Source Hardware $140B and Rising
