On Tuesday 10 March 2009 13:01, jtd wrote: > > FOSS relies on making widely available ALL tools necessary for > creating software. It also understands that debugging, maintaining > and customising code is expensive. Further it presumes that most > people have moments of creativity and hence harnessing that > creativity will build a large pool of ideas. Thus the business > model is to leverage everbody's idea and code in return for one's > own contribution (miniscule in comparison to others' > contributions), parallel the review and debugging process, and > charge for > distribution, customisation, maintainence and or ride other > services made possible by using FOSS. > > Commercial Distributions > RH, Canonical aka Ubuntu, Novell aka Suse, etc > > Customisation > KG, JTD, RH, > > Maintanence > KG, Rony Bill, JTD, RH, Canonical > > Services > Google, Jabber, Yahoo
Forgot to add Saswata, Mitul and many others on the list. The names here are indicative of the massive range of business models and sizes. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
