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interesting read on money making open source projects

From: charlie hunt <charlie.hunt_at_sun.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:33:30 -0500

Found this to be a rather interesting read:

"Open-source strategy: Documentation = dollars", by Matt Asay
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9774567-16.html

Here is a quote from the article:
"People don't visit a software company's website to read about
the executives. They visit the website to get information on the
software. If your website is light on that information, you're
killing sales, especially in an open-source software company."

I think you can easily substitute "killing sales" with "killing adoption".

Sounds like Grizzly documentation is gonna be crucial to its long term
success and adoption.

charlie ...

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