On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Miguel Paraz <mpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember one conclusion from last time was that if someone had the > talent and the time, they would better spend it on a sideline rather > on working on an open source project. thats a very old fashioned view of open source. there are so many ways to monetize open source. its a collaborative innovation network. when other developers download and work on your software they are collaborators. all knowledge is open. open source is best explioted by a non traditional enterprise. most software people look at software creation as a self supporting revenue generating activity. it is not. it is not a microsoft like ecosystem. open source is an enabler for economic activity. it is free knowledge. its not property. intel pays people to write open source software to drive hardware sales. thats one very nice way to do it. the other is red hat. if you want to save time you pay them for the binaries otherwise if you have the time and/or people you pay too, you can download the source and build them yourself and improve it if you want. -- quarq consulting: agile, open source _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
