{"id":7342,"date":"2008-10-15T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/is_open_source_a_business_model.html"},"modified":"2008-10-15T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:23:49","slug":"is-open-source-a-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/is-open-source-a-business-model.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Open Source a Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from 451 Group tells us the obvious &#8212; open source is not a business model. Having spent countless hours with execs at Sangoma, Digium and Fonality I can tell you this is common sense in communications. In fact most open-source vendors now use some kind of commercial license. In case you are interested in learning more, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/report_says_pure_open_source_is_not_viable.php\">article<\/a> from ReadWriteWeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from 451 Group tells us the obvious &#8212; open source is not a business model. Having spent countless hours with execs at Sangoma, Digium and Fonality I can tell you this is common sense in communications. In fact most open-source vendors now use some kind of commercial license. In case you are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,178,171,179,180,181,182,163,199,188,1676,198,118,177,204,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}