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Eight Ways VARs Can Profit From Linux And Open Source
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| As we approach next week’s LinuxWorld Expo, The VAR Guy was reminded of an
| age-old problem. During a meeting earlier this week in New Orleans, a
| solution provider told The VAR Guy he just didn’t understand how to profit
| from open source. Didn’t we put this issue to rest a long time ago? Perhaps
| not. Here are eight ways VARs can profit from Linux and Open Source.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/07/30/eight-ways-vars-can-profit-from-linux-and-open-source/
What Do Small Open Source Projects Do With Money? Not Much.
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| What would your favorite small open source project do with a sudden influx of
| money? Imagine you donated $5000 to a project, where would the money go? Less
| scrupulous developers might spend the money on Mountain Dew and Twinkies, but
| more likely the money would just sit, doing nothing. Why? Because it takes
| time to spend money, and in the open source world time is in short supply.
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| In fact, it isn’t easy for small open source projects to spend money
| responsibly. If it was we wouldn’t have huge organizations like the Apache
| Foundation or the Django Foundation, which, among other things, are charge
| with distributing money where it’s needed.
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| But smaller projects are often caught off guard by money. The scenario
| posited above really happened. Developer Jeff Atwood donated some of the ad
| revenue from his blog to an open source project he liked. Atwood didn’t
| attach any strings, if the devs wanted to blow it on cocaine and whiskey they
| could, but the money is still sitting unused.
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/What_Do_Small_Open_Source_Projects_Do_With_Money__Not_MuchDOT
Related:
[Mozilla is] Beyond Sustainability
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| Mozilla's revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corp.) for
| 2006 were $66,840,850, up approximately 26 percent from 2005 revenue of
| $52,906,602. As in 2005 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with
| the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from
| Google.
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http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/10/beyond_sustainability.html
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