Open Source Bloggers Don't Let the Facts Confuse Them
The open source blogosphere is up in arms again with its typical “don’t-let-the-facts-get-in-the-way” postings against Microsoft (MSFT). This time Microsoft’s co-conspirators are the Stanford and Harvard business schools because two of their professors did a “study (of) how a commercial firm competes with a free open source product.” Some of the related blog posts have added Oracle (ORCL) to the bad-guy list, perhaps in honor of Oracle’s proximity to Stanford’s Palo Alto campus.
Unlike the irate bloggers, I’ll admit I have not read the academic study. The study appeared in either the winter (according to Stanford’s web site) or summer (according to the Harvard web site) edition of Production and Operations Management. I would have to pay POMS, its publisher, if I wanted to read it. A quick Google tells me the blogoblatherers didn’t read it either but only read Bill Snyder’s story about the academic study in the Stanford Graduate School of Business [GSB] News. Bill’s a great writer but a better source—because it is ascribed to one of the two academics—is the abstract on the Harvard site.
According to both the abstract and Bill’s article there seems to be some confusion between the terms free and open source software.
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