4.5. Business and Open-Source

• 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.
• In the ecology of the open source world, no node is indispensible. Developers can drop out, and distributors can fail, without it having a global effect on the ecology as a whole.
• We can observe that some firms employ open-source developers (open R&D) for the sake of increasing the total number of units shipeed, and by proportion their share of it.