On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:24:07PM +0200, I am WE4SEL wrote:
> I completely understand people wanna earn money for their work. I simply
> think it's sad that the idea of open-source, free, GPLed, whatever doesn't
> seem to work (see Snort beeing bought by CheckPoint (
> http://www.snort.org/about_snort/msg_from_marty/mr_100605.html )).
it works. There are many examples for this.
If you apply proprietary business concepts to
a Free Software product you likely fail. Those
stories are usually misinterpreted as "the Free
Software business model failed" :-(
I am not saying it is easy to earn money
with Free Software. In fact it is hard.
But possible.
There are also differences in the market. The
European Market is much more open to
the Free Software concept. It is easier to make
money with it over here.
(You can make money with Free Software in
US as well, but in most cases you should not
tell it is Free Software you are selling).
Best
Jan
--
Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/
Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/
Kolab Konsortium http://kolab-konsortium.de/
FreeGIS http://freegis.org/
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