[Ilugc] what's the economics of a FOSS business..pls help.
- From: codeshepherd@xxxxxxxxx (Deepan Chakravarthy)
- Date: Thu Mar 26 08:02:41 2009
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran
<selva_rsr@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone explain the economics of a typical FOSS based business...
Say for example, if we take a FOSS company like Mozilla, what is its exact
business model ?
Since Mozilla software is free to download, where does the company actually
making money ?
This economic side of FOSS is still vague in many of our minds in this
mailing list including me.
We just saw sun being valued for 6 Billion USD. According to market cap
and revene data, I would say Redhat should be valued little less than Sun.
Together Sun and Redhat are the two most important and successful FOSS
companies out in todays industry.
PS: I don't answer your question. But I guess these data are relevant.
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