Date: 08/18/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: no keywords

The customer won't likely want to see the source code, but having it available to the online vendor helps. You're his partner on sales calls, but your offerings will go side-by-side against proprietary products. To the customer there is no difference.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/145500858/