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[News] Free Software Does Not Mean Non-profit

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Free software: It's about the money

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| There may be a clue in the panel lineup, however: It includes Sacha Labourey, 
| chief technology officer at JBoss, bought by Red Hat for $350 million in 
| 2006; and David Axmark, cofounder of MySQL, for which Sun Microsystems paid 
| around $1 billion in January. Could the secret be to sell the company, not 
| the software?    
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http://www.itworld.com/open-source/55316/free-software-its-about-money


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Listen To Your Users

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| It seems to be right: how could you measure the success of Linux in the term
| of gaining larger user base, or larger market share, if the Linux developers
| don’t even try to satisfy these goals? It would be like judging a soccer team
| by the way how good they are at playing volleyball, and judging a volleyball
| team by the way how good they are at playing soccer. It’s pointless, of
| course.
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| It’s not so simple, though. I think that it’s all about the point of view.
| There are people in the soccer team, who are good soccer players and poor
| volleyball players. In the volleyball team the situation is opposite, but all
| of these people are sportspersons and thus we can compare their individual
| achievements and sporting conduct… It’s not pointless anymore, is it?
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http://polishlinux.org/linux/arch/listen-to-your-users/


Open Source Is No "Get-Rich-Quick Scheme" But If You Get It Right...

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| How true is that. But money is being made with Open Source. Some make
| spectacular money by exploiting Open Source (Google, Apple) and some things
| wouldn't even exist without it (Internet, Software as a Service, Cloud
| Computing) - so it really boils down to finding the right business model.
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http://eclipse.sys-con.com/node/647594
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