This essay by Matt Asay explains why he and others organized the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), set to take place March 16-17 at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square in San Francisco. Asay, a former student of Lawrence Lessig at Stanford, and a former general manager at Lineo, explains how the OSBC was conceived as a way to “drive the commercial viability of open source software, and consequently… breed more of it.”

Find out more background on the OSBC and the marriage of capitalism and open source in Asay's essay, “Open Source for Capitalists.”

Read “Open Source for Capitalists”

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