Impossible thing #4: Funding community enterprises like Blender and the Orange
and Peach Movie Projects
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| The bazaar development model turns out to be amazingly versatile: it seems
| that most software, even things you wouldn’t think would be feasible, can be
| developed using such an approach. But there has to be some working core
| software before the community will have enough interest to contribute to a
| project, and there are some projects where that is really too much work for
| one person to do. One such area is sophisticated 3D graphics applications,
| like Blender (and also Computer Aided Design applications, like BRL-CAD).
|
| [...]
|
| Communities certainly can raise funds if the community is large enough and
| there is a high level of trust that the contributions will produce results.
| The free culture community has about an order of magnitude to go to catch up
| to such mainstream funding levels, but there’s every reason to believe that
| the potential for that kind of growth is there.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/mihrfc/impossible_thing_4_funding_community_enterprises
Sun intends to monetise MySQL by just offering services around it. First new
example:
Sun Microsystems and Zmanda to Deliver Comprehensive Database Backup & Recovery
Solutions for MySQL Enterprise Customers
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| Starting April 1, MySQL Enterprise customers will be able to purchase ZRM for
| MySQL directly from Sun worldwide. Zmanda and Sun have also agreed to
| joint-selling and co-marketing activities in support of MySQL, the world's
| most popular open source database software.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080318/20080318005334.html?.v=1
Money from happy users ('customers'):
Packt Publishing Donates Over $100,000 to Open Source Projects
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| Following its first donation to the
| phpMyAdmin project in April 2004, the company has gone on to provide
| sustained support for over thirty different open source projects.
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http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2008/18/c4528.html
Related:
Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win
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| Gordon Haff, a senior IT advisor with consultancy Illuminata, has a less
| exuberant take on Sun's move. He sees it as a good thing for Sun as well as a
| great thing for MySQL.
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21912
How Consolidation Affects Open Source
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| The open source model, then, serves as an effective bulwark against a company
| buying a competitor to take it out of the market. It also provides an escape
| hatch for projects that are snapped up, continued, but mismanaged. That's
| actually a pretty significant advantage for users and customers over the
| proprietary model.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4891
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