there is another model for the FOSS developer itself, sell really high-end consultation and solutions.
This I know from MySQL. (note: this is consultation, not a dual license..) I have a UK friend who worked for NTT (Nortel) a big Telco vendor. They actually sub-contracted MySQL to write them a highly clustered DB backend to handle very high volume transactions (Nortel switches can handle a few million simultaneous calls per/sec) and each call requires a DB lookup to create a session... I asked him, how come you dont use Oracle, he said not fast enough! So MySQL gets its revenues from such high end jobs to fuel the community free versions... and I suspect the technology used in the paid R&D stuff eventually finds its way into the free version as well. And they can do it as they are the core developers. (Much like auto companies getting involved in Formula-1 for R&D, and those technology eventually finds its way to the normal cars.. but the pricing model here its quite diff !) So again as the argument go, if you have the skills and tech know-how, you can make the dollars.... its always the tech skills and knowledge. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:37 PM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.... > > > > > -- #------- regds, Boh Heong, Yap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
