On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 23 Aug 2008, abhishek jain wrote: >> Hello, >> I was one of the many persons who attended the talks given by Gora >> and the other people. >> A question arised - what is the motivator behind the FOSS >> development, is it money, or rather can it be money. >> What do you think, >> >> What is the economics behind FOSS. How can one earn substantial money >> through FOSS? > > That's actually three questions: > > 1. Why do people work with FOSS? > > 2. How does one earn money from programming in FOSS? > > 3. How does one earn money from FOSS? .. <snip> .. > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron.html > > Specific strategies for making money from FOSS are in Chapter 9: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-9.html > > Note that these are ways of making money from coding; you can also make > ample money from supporting, installing, customising and integrating > FOSS components for clients.
Indeed very nicely drafted, and I also enjoyed Eric S. Raymond's article on economics of FOSS. On Eric's chapter 10, When To Open, and When To Be Closed. How much the FOSS is effected in case M$ also open its source? Secondly like this article, Is there any single place where all the software's licenses are explained? No I don't want to become FOSS advocate rather want to understand with simplicity like Eric explained the complex subject of economics in FOSS. Regards Yash _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
