Great article on open source, the peculiarities of software economics, etc. "To put this in retail terms, open source software has all of the properties of a l

Great article on open source, the peculiarities of software economics, etc. "To put this in retail terms, open source software has all of the properties of a loss-leader -- minus the loss, of course." "either the demand-side will ultimately force sufficient improvements to the existing open source databases, or the supply-side will force the open sourcing of one of the viable competitors."