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Written by Philip Copeman
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009 |
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“Open
Source will thrive in turbulent economy”,
that's the opinion of top Venture capitalists taking part in North
Bridge Venture Partners' annual Future
of Open Source survey. More importantly this is also the opinion
of Ross Turk, Director of one of our key partners,
www.sourceforge.net
I have to agree with them. Forget all the doom and gloom
“Worst in 80 years” talk. For anyone over the age of 25, trying
to remember past economic circumstances, the closest relative we have
to the current situation is the 2002-2003 downturn. I called this
period at the time, the Internet Nuclear Winter. This was the period
immediately following the bursting of the Dot Com bubble.
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