Dear friend, First we need to know what is this term Free means, for you know I Installed Linux, sorry GNU/Linux many times (of course not only on my computer but also on others), this idea of Freedom is not totally what it means...................
You know, think about time you spend upon getting it up in your machine, and much psychic effort waiting to see whether it finally up or down, and above all if your Internet is so slow, what to talk that all gone for ............... This idea 'Freedom' is not even about source is free and you just get it and keep it in you machine. That is why there is lot of difference between the term 'Open' and the term 'Free'. If it is all about FLOSS, then where come these companies are running in teeming profits. We need to see this word differently at different context. Say for suppose think about distinction with respect to Dictionary meaning and Law........both defines the word Free differently............... Uto math Jago re Jago...................... MK On 12/30/10, Gaurav Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sagar Belure <[email protected]>wrote: > > <Snip> > > >> 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. >> >> >> </snip> > > Businesses don't buy softwares, they buy solutions. Which inevitably solve > there one or other problem. > > If you are looking forward to ideate onto a product , get into product > development , create marketing/sales system , create a delivery channel > , fix bugs/releases and create a efficient support system for your > consumers. Great , go ahead do it. But have atleast a million dollars and > couple of years with you before making a sustainable business venture. > > There are tons of proprietary softwares coming out daily and they will > continue to be out in the market. FOSS model works perfectly when you want > to crowdsource all the effort including development, bug fixing > , delivery channel and marketing. All this while still you own the > software. > > Imagine the amount of marketing spend you have to do if you need to make > apache , firefox a brand which it is currently. It's a very smart way to > create a sustainable brand , rest of money will follow from various other > ways. > > Look at Wordpress (Matt), Canonical (Mark) and read through > there entrepreneurial journey, these guys get the FOSS culture and mass > needs perfectly and cashing it out for there own good. It's a very smart way > of doing business, only when you get it perfectly. > > And in the end there is always the freelancing model of work through which > hundreds of indian freelancers and IT professionals are making crores each > year. A perfect need of market where a client A needs some solution and > freelancer B takes some open source software customize it with the client > need and meet the solution of client. A is always charged of the full > software value and the open source software benefits from > the customization and module development B has done. A win win situation for > everyone. :) > > My two cents. > > Regards, > Gaurav Mishra > > # Blog: http://www.gmishra.com > # Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmishra > # LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravmishra7 > > >> -- >> Thanks, >> Sagar Belure >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ilugd mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd >> > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Kamakshaiah Musunuru www.kamakshaiah.wordpress.com www.kamalinux.wordpress.com +251-914238020 (Ethiopia) +91-9177573730 (India) _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
