FOSS ppl cannot sell too close to the software. They must go further up the food chain - services, premium attention, warantty support, branded confidence.
MySQL had a bad dual licence model which (i read from an early interview) didn't return what they expected. Free begets free riders. Don't blame them for selling out. To me Brian Aker is the guy as he seems to continue on the adrenalin path. For me, if offered a billion for ADempiere circle, won't buy me the satisfaction of slaying dragons - something my past lives must have wrought. Marcus wrote: > Lawyers, doctors, they just see you for 15 seconds and you pay. Can > anyone really do this for software? its hard sell unless you come in as > "consultant" . > > By using this model (lawyer) however or paid services, how does a > company export its own products since they are not the core developer of > the particular open source project. > Take MySQL for eg, they can offer both community version and commercial > version, but that is because they are the core developers of MSQL, no? > > The rest are just SI's or solution providers that will just be using the > community server and selling off some customized projects to a very > niche market, unless that "customized" project becomes an open source > projet that is popular and takes on a new wave on its own, then "this" > project could offer its "community" version as well as its "commercial" > version. Thus that will be OSS being profitable. Else.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
