On Friday 28 November 2008, Ori Idan wrote: > I think the question is why not open source? > The question is not how you make money from open source, although this is > not always obvious, you can see many companies who does make money from > open source. > But how do you make money from closed source? this remains a mystery to me.
Ahmm.... by licensing it, or selling it, or providing services for it? I'm not saying your income is guaranteed this way, but it is possible. See also: http://www.whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4003 Now the million dollars' question is whether the percentage of companies whose software is open-source and are profitable is larger than that of companies whose software is proprietary. (Naturally excluding all the companies who develop in-house, embedded, etc. software). Regards, Shlomi Fish > I would be happy to give a talk about it, actually I think it is better to > have a discussion about it so it will not be a talk but rather a > discussion. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://xrl.us/bkeuk Shlomi, so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? -- Ran Eilam _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
