InformationWeek's Charlie Babcock has stumbled on a great truth--the only way to build a business is to have customers. This is something that Matt and I have stressed a number of times. Revenue solves all problems :> Says Rod Johnson of Spring/Interface21:Instead, open source products "should be funded by their customers," the only way to ensure they that have a future, Johnson says. It's no accident that the b InformationWeek’s Charlie Babcock has stumbled on a great truth–the only way to build a business is to have customers. This is something that Matt and I have stressed a number of times. Revenue solves all problems :>Says Rod Johnson of Spring/Interface21:Instead, open source products “should be funded by their customers,” the only way to ensure they that have a future, Johnson says. It’s no accident that the best known enterprise open source programs, such as the MySQL database and the JBoss application server, have companies with paying customers behind them.Link: What Makes An Open Source Project Successful? Open Source