The Web Economy/27

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Community OS vs Commercial OS

This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

A self increasing community saves a project alot from investing in marketing, branding, testing and development as well as sustenance.
Commercial interests began to control open source projects^[1] as much money can be made quickly with minimal investment^[2]^[3] due to the energy from communities that form around them.
Communities are allergic to commercial tendencies and often fork to maintain its openness^[4].
Forking is an important and necessary character^[5] of Open Source.

What are the important forks and how are they doing compared with their parent projects?
Can commercial open source be as open as community open source?

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