Hello everybody, I am a computer science student about to graduate. The open source revolution seems to be very fine except for one thing; Most volunteers are people who work for software companies and who develop Open Source software in their spare time. We have still not addressed one question "How to make Open Source a profitable Industry" because money after all is a sad fact of life and we all need it. What kind of business model will make Open Source a money making endeavour so that people like myself do not have to work for some propriety software manufacturing firm but give our full attention to the development of open source softwares. I think that will revolutionize the world by making open source the first choice rather than an afterthought. How can we make open source software witholding all the principles of the GPL and still become a successful and profitable venture ? Any thoughts ? goodbye Mayukh ** sorry for the length of the letter, i seem to be too verbose :)
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On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 16:48, Mayukh Datta Roy wrote:
I am a computer science student about to graduate.
First of all you mailed to wrong list by saying open source rather `free software' every where in your post.
Please read -
* http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html * http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
The open source revolution
The free software revolution.
Source software in their spare time. We have still not addressed one question "How to make Open Source a profitable Industry" because money after all is a sad fact of life and we all need it.
It has been addressed a long time when free software campaign was started. Please read http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
What kind of business model will make Open Source a money making endeavour so that people like myself do not have to work for some propriety software manufacturing firm but give our full attention to the development of open source softwares.
Please read -
* http://news.com.com/2009-1023-207622.html * http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836385,00.asp
I think that will revolutionize the world by making open source the first choice rather than an afterthought.
That's going on.
How can we make open source software witholding all the principles of the GPL and still become a successful and profitable venture ?
examples -
FSF, Inc (http://fsf,org) - though non-profitable, but earning some money - http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/ RedHat, Inc, Novell, etc
- Ramprasad B
Hi,
On 11/17/06, Ramprasad ramprasad@gnu.org wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 16:48, Mayukh Datta Roy wrote:
I am a computer science student about to graduate.
First of all you mailed to wrong list by saying open source rather `free software' every where in your post.
Please read -
+1
Regards Nikhil Prabhakar
Mayukh Datta Roy wrote:
Most volunteers are people who work for software companies and who develop Open Source software in their spare time.
Many developers on high-profile projects (the Linux kernel, Mozilla, ...) are paid full time to work on Free software.
We have still not addressed one question "How to make Open Source a profitable Industry" because money after all is a sad fact of life and we all need it. What kind of business model will make Open Source a money making endeavour so that people like myself do not have to work for some propriety software manufacturing firm but give our full attention to the development of open source softwares.
1. Selling Free software [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html] 2. Working for a company that revolves around creating Free software and offering related services (such as Red Hat).
Harish
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