5 Stages to Open Source

This from Open Road:

If you walk into the headquarters of open-source leader Red Hat, you’ll see this quote from Mahatma Gandhi gracing the wall:

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.


Forrester Research has crafted its own “Five Stages of Open Source Adoption,” as published recently in the May 15, 2009, edition of SD Times, which roughly follows the same pattern of doubt-giving-way-to-adoption that Gandhi suggested

5 Stages of Open Source
5 Stages of Open-source Adoption
(Credit: Forrester (via SD Times))

Very very cool :)

2 Responses to “5 Stages to Open Source”

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  2. Scott Sanicki Says:

    Have you seen the RedHat’s “Truth Happens” ad from a few years back which builds on Gandhi’s quotation? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjSDAUykkzQ

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