You can make an reasonable profit by selling services around Open Source software such as Linux, MySQL, Postfix, etc. You can potentially charge more for services around your own Open Source software because you're the recognised experts, but not that much more actually... Then you have to fund the development team which is expensive. The numbers don't always add up which is why so many Commercial Open Source companies have several versions of their software with different pricing models. I'm in agreement that some of these models are more in the spirit of Open Source than others.
An alternative is that the Opsview development team is comprised of volunteers, then we don't have to pay them and we can all make enough money from services, since the software comes free. _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/listinfo/opsview-users
