FOSS e Proprietrios
Bom artigo mostrando como a dinmica colaborativa e a crescente adoo dos softwares livres esto reconfigurando a indstria dos softwares proprietrios. Esse mais um exemplo que comprova a dinmica maior da cibercultura: uma reconfigurao da cultura massiva e da indstria cultural (vejam meu artigo “Cibercultura Remix”, “Le Brsil dans la Socit…”, “Cibercultura, 15 pontos…”, no link “Artigos” desse Carnet).
Nesse caso, a adoo dos FOSS esto obrigado os softwares proprietrios a inventarem novos modelos de negcio…e isso para o bem de ns, usurios. Vejam trechos da matria 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.”