posted Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 9:33 am MSTIn a column dated 27OCT02, Tim O'Reilly makes and expands a whole series of good points on the subject of Successful Free Software Businesses. (He also includes a selection of pointers to other threads.)
"I've been saying for years that the shift towards commodity software (whether free or just open standards) would lead towards a new paradigm in which money was increasingly made on services. (At one point I was calling it infoware, now I'm saying web services and 'the internet operating system', but the point is similar. People don't pay for the software, but for the services the software delivers.)
