> --- On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Satya Prakash Prasad > <satyaprakash.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > | How do > | people working in FOSS technology make some earning out of it. > \-- > > Firstly, people work in FOSS because they like working with it - > freedom of source code, documentation, community etc. Earning money is > only a side-effect.
I am one who fits in the above category. My experience might give you some idea about, how I am making money using FOSS business model. > > You can earn through services, support and training. There are > different business models that you can adopt. My company (LinuXpert Systems) provide support services like FOSS Lab setup, Training (mostly relevant to academic curriculum) and several other services using FOSS for most Engineering colleges in the state since 2003. Though, we are not doing any software development kind of work, but we do customization of selective FOSS software for our customers (ex. Koha for Library Automation, DSpace for Institutional Repository, OpenELEC for Media Library etc. to name a few). Now-a-days, most colleges were suffering from Proprietary Software licensing issues. For them we build Custom Linux distribution (with all the academic relevant FOSS packages) for fulfilling their academic requirements. If the intention is about making money, customize existing FOSS software by adding features which will generate good revenue model. S. Baskar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
