Twisting the bytes

By Yohei Yamashita (CC-BY 2.0)

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization aimed  to promote the CC licenses around the world, thus generating positive awareness and impact on the global issue of knowledge share. Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, reflects this vision in an interview for TechRadar. This interview got my attention, and triggered this post.

How to build a good business model for non-profit organizations supporting open movements(*)?

(*) [Note: in the absence of a better term, I've been using open movements to encompass all sort of initiatives articulated around collaborative communities, open to the contribution of any person, pursuing the creation of physical or digital works and knowledge compliant with the definition of free cultural works. For instance, this includes Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), as well as creative works (text, images, audio, video, etc.) released under a free license].

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The Illumos announcement, aired last August 3, may be the soap of this Summer. But it can also be the starting point of a story that will leave a memorable footprint in open source software. And that is not because of the project itself, which is cool. It is not because it shows some interesting advantages of open source software business models.

Above all (and if everything stays the same), we will remember this affair due to the huge opportunity Oracle is missing in this precise moment. Oracle is missing a healthy project, OpenSolaris, with a committed community of users and developers around the world, in one of the most critical market segments at this moment: high performance operating system platforms. What a blunder…

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