8 Oct
2006
8 Oct
'06
10:29 p.m.
On 08/10/06 23:26 +0530, Rony wrote:
Dinesh Shah wrote:
There are large number of businesses / developers / students who do have this question - "If I give away my source code, how will I make money".
If I own a software company, how do I make money if my software is OSS and anyone can compile the code and sell copies of the same without I getting any share of it? Is too much freedom dangerous?
Every large corporate I know wants support contracts. Too much freedom? The second option is to write custom software. Basic economic analysis should tell you why normal economic models fail with the Internet.
Devdas Bhagat