You missed 4) Found a company to sell services and support around your open source product. (MySQL, RedHat, Pentaho) 5) Found a company whose commercial offerings (services/products) you popularise by bouncing off the popularity of your open source (37 Signals, Thoughtbot)
Does a business model exist around open source? Yes it does (note that earning an exceptional salary *is* a business model in my book). Is it viable? Yes it is. What's the problem? On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been reading a few threads on this forum, and even participated in > them. However I thought I must write my views on this subject separately. > Also before I start my tirade, I want to make a couple of disclaimers. Come > to think of it, I should mak e a blog post of this. However since my mind > was > instigated by this subject, on this forum, I only think it is right I > should > post it here. > > Disclaimer 1. I am not the best programmer around here. I am sure there are > many people better than me. > Disclaimer 2. I am not an expert on the subject of free Vs paid. > > Having said the above let me make a few observations on this subject. > > 1) I have seen a few "immature idiots" who think open source is the way to > go. Granted, they are good meaning young people, however they need to know > where they are headed. > 2) Then there are the "intellectual ignoranti" who think Open Source is the > panacea for all "humanities Illness". > > Let us start with Guido Van Rossum. Where does he work? He works for > Google. > Brad Fitz the original author of OpenID works for Google. > Let me tell you that the above, are only a couple of examples. All the > Open > Source Guru's of today work for some company or another. Even Linus > Torvalds. He worked for a company called Transmeta (Which is no more > today). > > If you take the birthplace of all (most of all) startups today, It is San > Fransisco, and all your beloved Open Source Guru's are either > 1) Working for one of those BIG companies based in SF( includes Google) > (and > a small minority out of SF) > 2) The other Guru's are working in a startup based in SF and a small > minority other wise. > 3)And the rest of the Open source Guru's are writing software in the hope > that they will be bought over by no (1) or no (2). > > So my question is, what shit are you talking about based in India? Please, > Please Enlighten me? > > > > -- > http://about.me/santosh.rajan > > “The *young man* knows the rules but the *old man* knows the > exceptions”. *Oliver > Wendell Holmes* > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
