Selvakumar Rajeswaran 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.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=foss+business+models will help. In the specific case of Firefox, search engines like Google and Yahoo share revenue based on the number of ad clicks they get via people using Firefox. Rahul _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
