An Open Source project becomes good enough and takes over the market. Because the price of the Open Source product is zero you cannot compete with proprietary software. Additionally your software introduces licensing overhead. You have to move your product significantly forward or move on to other markets.
This happened e.g. to the application server market. And at some point in the future it will happen to the office suite as well.
An Open Source project becomes good enough and takes over the market. Because the price of the Open Source product is zero you cannot compete with proprietary software. Additionally your software introduces licensing overhead. You have to move your product significantly forward or move on to other markets. This happened e.g. to the application server market. And at some point in the future it will happen to the office suite as well.