On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009, Aasif Shaikh wrote: > I am new to GNU/Linux and Open Source world. I had seen lots of open > source stable projects on internet, which anybody can download, > modify and sell to anybody. > > Now the question arises; if a *PERSON A* develops a stable and good > project as an Open Source and upload it over the internet and the > *PERSON B* from some other country downloads and modify it with his > name as an author (basically he is stealing someone's code) and sell > it to some company to make money out of it. So how this *PERSON A* is > going to be benefited.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cauldron/ Summary (by Eric Raymond): This essay analyzes the evolving economic substrate of the open-source phenomenon. I first explode some prevalent myths about the funding of program development and the price structure of software. I then present a game-theory analysis of the stability of open-source cooperation. I present nine models for sustainable funding of open-source development; two non-profit, seven for-profit. I then continue to develop a qualitative theory of when it is economically rational for software to be closed. I then examine some novel additional mechanisms the market is now inventing to fund for-profit open-source development, including the reinvention of the patronage system and task markets. I conclude with some tentative predictions of the future. Slightly dated, but still a valid examination of how to make money from FOSS. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
