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Interesting article on open source business models, their validity and innovation …

Since 1993, Larry McVoy has been one of the closest allies to Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source Linux operating system. Yet after all these years, McVoy has come to believe that the open source business model […] cannot generate enough money to support the development of truly innovative software programs.
“Open source as a business model, in isolation, is pretty much unsustainable,” says McVoy, founder and chief executive of BitMover, a […]company that makes a software-development tool for Linux called BitKeeper.

read more at Forbes.com