Greetings All, I need a guideline and few tips on my problem. I want to plunge myself into an Open Source business but don't know how can I make it happen and what are the market perspectives regarding Open Source?
I did a research in my town and here major market share goes to Windows (obviously pirated) and technology solution shops are not ready to migrate to Open Source because they are making handsome bucks out of providing pirated solutions to ignorant computer users. Secondly, I also visited few engineering colleges and university campus for having a bird-eye view on their curriculum. I was amazed that it doesn't have any space for Open Source (as of now) and not even a single college or teacher wants to support me on this. :( I am confused that how can Open Source be a good option for me to earn my bread (like teaching open source technologies, providing solutions etc.). One more problem is when I talk and discuss about Open Source and narrate them the benefits (like freely available and others too) then people ask me that if it's free then why should we pay you for this? My answer is: You'll pay for my services not for any software cost. Does my answer make any sense? On a side note, I don't have any particular business or marketing skills. But once I know how to handle customers need and market situation then I will come to know what to do. In short, kindly suggest me with your priceless experiences and suggestions that how can a young techie becomes an Open Source Entrepreneur and earns his bread from it. Please ignore grammatical mistakes and typos if any. Thank you. -- *Regards,Sahil ModGill* _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
