- W. Mark Felt (Deep Throat) never said, “follow the money”, BUT, when it comes to open source, YOU BETTER FOLLOW THE MONEY.
- You must know how the software is funded today and how it is funded tomorrow.
- Open Source Monetization is an evolving with a community building source and enterprise binary model with horizontal/vertical non-open components – understand what the open source software monetization strategy is.
This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.