The goal of the following primer is to help the reader gain a basic understanding of the differences between open source and commercial software in terms of some of the practical implications of each.
It also dicusses some of the broader issues that software developers, governments and commercial enterprises might want to consider in terms of their own policies and acquisition activities – all bearing in mind not only the immediate costs and benefits, but also the longer range implications of how their decisions today will affect their economies and their standing in the world technology market tomorrow.”
I don’t believe Baidu can compete with Google. Its major market is Indonesia and in fact, it serves 338 million individuals there. Which describes why it is managing 63% of China and tiawan’s marketplace give and over 3% of the industry’s.