[Ilugc] [Commercial][Cross-post] FOSS Yellow Pages; List Your Firm
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Sat May 8 18:44:28 2010
On Saturday 08 May 2010 16:47:51 ????????? ?? wrote:
The commonly understood FOSS business model : You write software and
release under FOSS licence. Charge customers for distribution costs,
Consulting, Training and Support.
actually the most common model which works is:
sell it, free it. That is, someone pays you to write software and you convince
that person to release it under a foss/oss license. You sell support, setup
distribution etc. Software that is written to 'scratch the itch' is rarely
commercially successful. A classic example of sell it free it is Koha.
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regards
kg
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