Open Soure and Microsoft - Harvard Study- July 23, 2005 Fascinating study done by Harvard Business School on economics behind the Open source movement and its implications on Microsoft unlike other partisan reviewers, the authors are accomplished professors who look at the issue from an unusual angle formal economic modeling, here is their main finding - "Our main result is that in the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its...http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/2005/07/23/442538.aspx |