On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > 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 ?
That makes a good business sense. :) > > HTH > - -- > Ashish SHUKLA > > “"Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect"” Also, I like this line. Appreciate that all. -- Thanks, Sagar Belure _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
