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Sagar Belure writes:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>> 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?
Yes, but that's not good in long run, esp. when people figure out your
strategy. ;)
Everyone needs support. Unless your willing to maintain software stack on your
own, you'll need some one to maintain it, that's what support means. Be it in
terms of porting your customizations to new versions, tuning it for
performance, developing addons etc.
> 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.
How about maintaining a kernel for n years, and backporting new hardware
support to it, while avoiding the bugs which come with new kernels ?
HTH
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Ashish SHUKLA
“"Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect"”
("Ion-Mihai Tetcu", ".sig of Ion-Mihai Tetcu")
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