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October 10, 2005
Shiny Happy People
I've been thinking a lot about the state of Open Source business lately and putting together my slides for EuroOSCON - where I want to basically tell the story of what we have been doing for the past five years and in particular detail some of the mistakes we made while getting commercially involved in Open Source. I keep humming some of REM's lyrics when thinking about the sugar coated chrome Open Source business headlines I seem to be increasingly reading:
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine
Is it just me or is Open Source business currently in danger of being overly visible through Shiny Happy People and forgetting the virtues that enabled the current success? Nah, I'm just turning into a grumpy old man.
Posted by Matthew at October 10, 2005 06:25 PM