Open source software is often contending in a market that is dominated by large corporations. Be it Microsoft when it comes to operating systems and web browsers, or Google when it comes to search engines. The same situation is true in completely different markets as well. Innovation can be a a way to overturn such a market division, and recently, two companies have tried to break open the interchangeable lens digital camera market. I'm talking about Olympus and Panasonic who launched the Micro FourThirds system in 2008.

The concept of Open Source is generally seen as a good idea. But it's more than just a sympathetic concept and open source applications can offer substantial advantages over 'closed source' applications. So why is it that open source applications are only slowly gaining market share? A recent personal experience might provide some insight.

So I'm starting a blog... It's been two weeks now since j0nathan asked me to write a blog on relative.nl. Quite an honour to be asked, but what am I going to write about? Relative.nl is a community dedicated to the spread of open source, and I can wholeheartedly subscribe to that goal. But I'm not a software developer. So what do I write about?