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Another very common free software business model is based on system
integration - helping customers to install networks and various
software
packages and making everything work together. These companies help
free
software because they often find bugs and will either submit a bug
report or
a bugfix. Some of these companies even add new features and
contribute
those back to the free software project.
that's what i do.. a customer of mine last year found me for LDAP
consultancy
...i did a total integration of his infrastructure... 8 months of work
now, from that experience i want to make a live cd based on Debian
GNU/Linux
...it 's a massacre for me to replicate the same installation every time
so, i want to create a toolchain with all the configurations i need,
and i'll give away a pre-packaged solution like ubuntu does
if someone wants customizations, pays
what happens if someone tells me... "i want your toolchain?"
can i answer... get the code, is out there, i did not changed
anything of the binaries,
the toolchain is MY work of configuring and keep everything togheter...
at the same time i'm contributing patches to projects GOSa^2,
SeaGull, bind9, cyrus and sasl2
...and from now, Debian LiveCD
why should i give away my toolchain? better for me not to create it
and do everytime an installation by a netinstall from Debian and have
NO TIME AT ALL to contribute to the projects i told before
i do not have time, money, and people to do like Mysql, Redhat, and
many others did...
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Guido Serra aka Zeph
http://guidoserra.it
+39 348 4313 992
sistemista e sviluppatore
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