Some companies charge for support and still make money from their open
source projects!
bruce wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick question. Had a conversation with a person who works for a
non-profit, and she was describing some of her dealings with obtaining
grants for the development of 'open source' apps.Got me to thinking. If a
company sponsored the initial development of an 'open source' kind of app
(the exact licensing would need to be fleshed out) what do yout think would
be the response of people to work on the apps..
I started to wnoder if there would be a pool of talented people who would be
interested in working on projects that are initially funded. The funding
would go to pay the resources, set up the project, do initial grass roots
marketing, etc... The idea would be to focus in on the
projects/technologies/apps that a given business would agree to initially
support/fund.
Thoughts/comments/etc...
-bruce
bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ps. I'm not talking about a freshmeat.net/sourceforge kind of environment.
The obvious goal of this kind of process would be to turn small
applications/projects into profitable applications. My curiousity is whether
you could then create applications/services that could be built along the
same model as nagios/mysql/etc.. where you have a free/open version, as well
as a fee based application/service.
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