2010/12/29 Sagar Belure <[email protected]>: > 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.
They don't. They are run by non-profit organizations. Mozilla has a deal with Google to set the default search to Google, for which they get paid a hefty sum which pays for developers and infrastructure. Apache developers are paid by the companies that benefit from the project. Redhat is an out-and-out commercial organization that offers support as a service; many big companies pay Redhat for support. > Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, > there has to be some income. Indeed. And the idea of Free Software is that you don't make money by selling software written by somebody else; you instead provide value-addition over the base software. Binand -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
