Month: August 2012

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 24, 2012

The Three Open Source Business Models – Open Source as a Tool (OST) as a Platform (OSP) and as a Business (OSB)

(B) FreeBSD, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, Wikipedia, WordPress, Hadoop…the list goes on-and-on of projects that have been open sourced. In the 80s, software was about standards. Customers wanted standards […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 22, 2012

When Are We Going to Stop Using Coal to Produce Electricity?

(B) We had a piece of great and bad news this week. The good news first…The US Energy Information Administration has released a new report which concluded that the “U.S. carbon dioxide […]