Why isn the OpenTeams application open source?
OpenTeams absolutely believes in and supports the open source movement, but isn’t choosing that path for a few reasons: • We aspire to be more than just a collaborative tool, but evolve into a social network that helps people reach their true career and talent potential – similar in some ways to MySpace or Facebook. That necessitates a centralized software-as-a-service model. • We want the OpenTeams organization to be a proof-of-concept for the Entrepreneurial Organization – a model that other companies and organizations can learn from and try to emulate. That requires OpenTeams to be a for-profit, revenue-generating corporation that they can relate to. • We believe that OpenTeams has the potential to radically help charitable nonprofits be more effective, so we offer it free to them. To support that free service, we, of course, need paying customers. Yes, it could be “free” to charitable nonprofits as open source, but that’s assuming they have the technical expertise and resources to
