Making money with free software ..
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| We have also to mention that we have to be careful and not to mix the Free
| software concept and the free of charge meaning because Free software can be
| sold and bought and there are many paid linux distributions as RedHat and
| OpenSuse... So we have to stop mixing the term of "Free software" to "poor
| developers" because being a Linux savvy and an Open Source developer is very
| important on the professional scale and it will allow you get an important
| job someday!
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http://wddc.blogspot.com/2007/11/making-money-with-free-software.html
Eclipse Reeling in Swordfish as SOA Framework
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| The Eclipse Foundation with its Swordfish project is developing an open
| source SOA framework intended for applications ranging from enterprise
| environments to embedded systems.
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http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E18002573C4007B5934.html?ref=technology
Related:
The secret to Red Hat's success
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| How can Red Hat stay in business when CentOS is giving away Red Hat code for
| free?
|
| The answer is because Red Hat is also giving away Red Hat code for free.
|
| [...]
|
| CentOS stands a good chance of putting downward pressure on the price of
| RHEL, but only as one part of the commodification of operating systems and
| other software. Hardware has already been through this phase, and as the
| process works its way through the software stack, it will be helped by the
| growing trend to virtualization.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid39_gci1283663_tax305254,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2sge6j
How to make money by giving stuff away
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| RedHat CFO Charlie Peters said this week that the key to success
| is to "convince customers of the value of moving from free to paid".
| Largely because JBoss is a free download, an estimated 11 million
| people are using it. Now if they can move even a small fraction of
| those customers into the paying column, that will be a significant
| source of revenue.
|
| [...]
|
| There is something of a snowball effect here. As you bring more
| people into your "community", the community becomes more attractive
| (because of new content, shared knowledge, buzz, etc.), which drives
| even more people in.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=202
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