Eric Sink on the Failure of Open Source

Eric Sink has written about the failure of open source. He says that as a concept, you can’t throw it out, because there is a lot of good quality open source. But, as a business model, it hasn’t worked. He calls open source the lowest margin of software businesses, and low margin businesses are indeed quite difficult.

I agree with what he says about office suites and operating systems eventually becoming commodities. Microsoft proves that they’re not commodities yet.