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# Takeaways from the Open Source Business Conference
- URL: https://helpmonks.com/blog/takeaways-from-the-open-source-business-conference/
- Published: 2009-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-06T20:08:01.000Z
- Description: Over at the Ostatic blog, there's a post with a rundown of the things they thought were most interesting at the Open Source Business Conference “. Here are s
- Author: Nitai
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Over at the Ostatic blog, there’s a post with a rundown of the things they thought were most interesting at the [Open Source Business Conference](http://www.osbc.com/?ref=helpmonks.com) that took place in San Francisco.

The post is a must read for those interested in Open Source. Especially, the Presentation by Drupal Founder entitled “[The secrets of building and participating in open source communities](http://buytaert.net/files/building-foss-communities-osbc-2009.pdf?ref=helpmonks.com)“.

Here are some quotes that [the 451 group caught during the event](http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/03/26/things-i-wrote-down-during-osbc/?ref=helpmonks.com), which I liked the most;

*“If we have a better product, and it happens to be open source, we’re going to win. But it has to be in that order”.*

*“The best business plans are disruptive at the market level, but not at the adoption level”.*

*“The further up the stack you go the less need there is for the source code”.*

*“Open source development communities are always a bit broken. Dysfunction is normal.”*

*“Our biggest competitor is not Microsoft, it’s not Novell, it’s people stopping paying us for support”.*