4.5. Business and Open-Source
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Depending on open source software is a sounder choice than depending on
proprietary one because you have the source and can do with it as you please.
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In the ecology of the open source world, no node is indispensable. Developers
can drop out, and distributors can fail, without it having a global effect
on the ecology as a whole.
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We can observe that some firms employ open-source developers
(open R&D) for the sake of increasing the total number of units shipped,
and by proportion their share of it.
Written by Shlomi Fish