Hi Daniele, > It would be great if some of the business leaders in the OSGeo community > could > provide me with inputs for the report. Your input will not only > help me convince them that FOSS4G is worth it > (I am already convinced, but need some data to support my > claim) but also help me to understand the business models better.
There is a paper from Arnulf Christl you might already know of:
"Free Software and Open Source Business Models"
@INCOLLECTION{christl2008,
author = {Christl, Arnulf},
title = {Free Software and Open Source Business Models},
booktitle = {Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2008},
editor = {G. Brent Hall and Michael G. Leahy},
pages = {21--48},
}
You can find the chapter for download here:
http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz284302910kap.pdf
Hope this helps,
Martin
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