Assumptions on Open Source spreading
Some loose coupled assumptions how open source affects the commercial software world:
- The amount of open source code reused inside commercial products has significantly increased the last few years and will gain at least with same speed when not faster in future.
- The ratio of reused open source code vs. self-written code used inside a commercial product is in favour of open source the smaller the company (or the smaller the budget for R&D).
- 100% open source products are getting mainstream and once reached a mature level they can compete in the same league as commercial products
- Although a lot of commercial software vendors already make use of open source code - only a minority is today actively supporting the group where the source is maintained.
- Major open source projects are funded by large commercial software vendors (mostly by assigning dedicated resources into the project). This is going to significantly increase in the next few years.
- On the other side – more and more commercial software vendors make their products open source.
And what happened in 3 years? Are open source projects going to be the shared R&D departments of the commercial software vendors?
