On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Narendra Sisodiya > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Sagar Belure <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Maybe I'm asking another noob question. >>> But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free >>> and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. >>> Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, >>> there has to be some income. > [...] > > One should absolutely not be worried about asking so-called > "noob" questions. At the same time, you could have got some > pretty good answers from a Google search for "FOSS business > models".
Right, still I had other intention as well, i.e. to get the perspective of making FOSS as business models on different LUGs. > > People have addressed such issues much better than I could, > but perhaps the best-established FOSS business model is > making money from support. The software comes for free, but > it makes eminent business sense for one's clients to hire one's > services at a cost. There are many examples of companies doing > exactly that, but to my mind one of the most successful ones in > this area is Redhat. Appreciate your input. Well, I don't get it correctly. Release software for free and make money by selling the support to make that software workable? Like say, releasing some so-called buggy or complicated thing for free. And to make it work properly, you need to purchase one's service to make the tweaks or lot more configurations which client can't do on his own. If so, I don't think, this is creating a good market reputation on it's own. -- Thanks, Sagar Belure _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
