FREE
Author of The Long Tail and Editor of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson says that every economy that becomes digital eventually becomes free. The technologies that underlie the web are becoming so cheap that the cost of the provision of digital services effectively becomes free. We already use services such as Gmail and Google Search for [...]
Automattic’s Open Source Business Model
The software business Automattic is best known for their WordPress blogging software, which has fast become the blogging platform of choice for most bloggers. Automattic has created this leadership position in part by using an open source business model. Their software is developed as open source, meaning it is free (no license fee) and anyone can access [...]