Freeware? Shareware? Open Source Development and the Economic Distribution Model

Dean Landsman has a new blog, and his current entry discusses Moveable Type’s new distribution.


Freeware? Shareware? Open Source Development and the Economic Distribution Model Over at Doc Searls’ IT Garage, in a piece called Applying Freedom, Doc began a conversation about “Freedom Zero.” Mark Pilgrim had originated the Freedom Zero discussion on his blog. An abundance of passionate discussion was prompted by Six Apart’s decision to introduce a pricing matrix for Movable Type. Prior to this matrix, MT had been freely distributed to the majority of its users. The discussion can be broadened to Open Source as a model for both development and pricing….


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