FOSS e Proprietários
Bom artigo mostrando como a dinâmica colaborativa e a crescente adoção dos softwares livres estão reconfigurando a indústria dos softwares proprietários. Esse é mais um exemplo que comprova a dinâmica maior da cibercultura: uma reconfiguração da cultura massiva e da indústria cultural (vejam meu artigo “Cibercultura Remix”, “Le Brésil dans la Société…”, “Cibercultura, 15 pontos…”, no link “Artigos” desse Carnet).
Nesse caso, a adoção dos FOSS estão obrigado os softwares proprietários a inventarem novos modelos de negócio…e isso para o bem de nós, usuários. Vejam trechos da matéria da eWeek, Open Source Is the Big Disruptor:
“Continued acceptance will drive down prices and force proprietary software vendors to change their business model.
Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result in cheaper software and new business models.
Open-source products accounted for a 13 percent share of the $92.7 billion software market in 2006, but should account for 27 percent of the market in 2011 when revenue is expected to be $169.2 billion, according to Gartner research.
And as it open source adoption grows expect its influence to grow, said Gartner research director Laurie Wurster in a presentation, “Measuring Open Source Market Influencers,” at the Gartner Open Source Summit Sept. 21 here.
“Open-source software is going to erode proprietary sales revenue by offering less-expensive or free alternatives, expanding the total market potential by meeting the demands of SMBs for affordable solutions, and creating a new business model for established and emerging service providers to provide selection, customization and management services for open-source solutions,” Wurster said.”