The french April releases "Economic Models of Freee Software",

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Bruno Cornec's picture

The french association April (which turned 10 this year) has translated his work on "Economic Models of Freee Software" which it published originaly in french back in December 2007.

It is a very good introduction document to point CEO/CIOs to, when they ask themselves why embrace FLOSS, or how starting a FLOSS business.

PDF version: http://www.april.org/files/economic-models_en.pdf

ODT version: http://www.april.org/files/economic-models_en.odt

The french version is also of course available ;-)