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[News] Free Software Projects Make Commercial Companies

  • Subject: [News] Free Software Projects Make Commercial Companies
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:23:15 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
The open source start-up dream still lives at Nagios

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| The dream has been transforming coders into entrepreneurs for several years, 
| and Galstad does not come to it alone 
| 
| [...]
| 
| A Nagios community advisory board has already been formed, and Galstad has 
| also begun to “transition” his role from developer to manager. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1690


Related:

An interview with Matt Asay

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| Glyn Moody talked to him about why he became a GPL believer and how to create 
| a billion-dollar revenue open source company. 
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http://lwn.net/Articles/240877/


So what is open source code?

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| The drawbacks are that there is not as much money in open source development. 
| Money can be made, but it is easier for the big companies to close things up, 
| get people hooked on their code, then charge them lots for the next upgrade 
| to whatever the big company decides to give them. You can make money from 
| open source, and one way is to do like Terra Soft Solutions (TSS) is doing. 
| Pre installing Linux onto PS3 can make money. Releasing an entire operating 
| system to the paying customers first before releasing it to the public a few 
| weeks later can make money. Selling support can make money. Selling 
| supercomputer services can make money. Did I mention that a variant of Yellow 
| Dog Linux (YDL) is used by TSS to build supercomputers?         
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http://blogs.ydl.net/onefang/2007/06/22/so-what-is-open-source-code/


Top Five Open Source Business Models You Never Heard Of

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| The art of “selling” or generating revenue from open source is a topic of 
| growing importance as open source takes a larger piece of the software 
| business. In the past, open source revenue has largely been associated with 
| services marketed by many top tier Linux companies: Support, middleware 
| solutions, etc.    
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3686616


How to make money by giving stuff away

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| RedHat CFO Charlie Peters said this week that the key to success
| is to "convince customers of the value of moving from free to paid".
| Largely because JBoss is a free download, an estimated 11 million
| people are using it. Now if they can move even a small fraction of
| those customers into the paying column, that will be a significant
| source of revenue.
| 
| [...]
| 
| There is something of a snowball effect here. As you bring more
| people into your "community", the community becomes more attractive
| (because of new content, shared knowledge, buzz, etc.), which drives
| even more people in.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=202


How to use open source as a power marketing tool

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| There are a number of ways traditional software vendors can participate
| in the open source software community. They circulate around open
| source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL), and
| how to leverage open source software as a marketing tool.
|
| [...]
|
| Traditional software vendors need to recognize the shift taking place
| is driven not only by successful open source projects, but also by the 
| rapid and broad adoption of open source in the customer marketplace. The 
| numbers behind open source adoption are compelling. Linux in both the 
| United States and Asia is the fastest growing operating system ever. As 
| measured by hostnames, Netcraft reports that the Internet has grown 26.1 
| percent over the past 12 months, over 67 percent of it served up by open 
| source Apache servers.
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http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/06/24/2057239.shtml

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