On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody in this list or people you know - have made money by creating > open source products? I am not talking about people who earn money by > providing services around someone else's effort of creating the primary, > core product (say the LAMP stack). I am talking about people who are > creative and made stuff from scratch. Off late I have started to have these > conflicting thoughts in my mind whether this entire open source movement is > made up of a small bunch of charitable people (the creators) and a huge > bunch of leeches who monetize the charity.
this is a very common thought and question is most of the people in this field. > I personally feel like a leach and have used brilliant open source apps > free of cost to my benefit. I never had the time to participate seriously > in giving back content to the open source pool (apart from a few > donations). do not procrastinate this is also good way of contributing back . >This is not an excuse, as I would have found time if I believed > that it was my responsibility. Anybody/Organization associated with this > group have a give-back policy? Giving is ones personal conscious thing nobody can force or demand it :-) > This is not a troll or to start a flame war. Just want to know about how > you guys think. i give this simple analogy to students as what they want to be , there are gold rush people ( the guys with one idea and want to make it big through product or service ) and people who will be making spades ( the guys who actually build things ) for the gold rush , may be mostly you have seen and interacted with people who are into making spades. anyway what is that big idea you have on your mind? -Satya fossevents.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
