What do we know about open source pricing?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 2, 2009 4:24 PM EDT
InfoWorld; By Mark de Visser
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Pricing for open source software products remains a hotly debated topic of interest. Dave Rosenberg argues in a recent post on Negative Approach that there is consensus that the price of open source software should be 10 to 20 percent of the price of equivalent proprietary software. He does not attribute that to anyone, and in our echo chamber of technology bloggers and tweeters, such a statement will quickly come to be seen as a long-established fact. Initially, my intuition told me that Rosenberg's thesis was wrong, but I didn't want to dismiss it without doing my own research. I looked into it a bit more and uncovered some interesting facts that argue both for and against the 10-to-20 percent range put forward by Rosenberg.

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