Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Who will buy your open-source start-up?



In the Web 2.0 world, this is an easy question to answer. Everyone wants to be bought by Google or Yahoo (or, really, anyone foolish enough to part with $30 million in exchange for six months spent on a relatively lame social-networking idea). In the open-source world, however, I think the answer is not so clear.



And yes, I think the answer is more complex than, "Whoever bids the highest." Why? Because there are principles at stake.



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Source: http://news.com.com

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