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How on earth do you make a dime out of Linux and open source software?
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| Software piracy is a scourge on the world of computing. Yet it's a problem
| the open source community doesn't have. That makes sense; it's all freely
| available. But this raises the question: if it's free how do the developers
| make any money? And how can it be any damn good?
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| [...]
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| Just because you produce or use open source software doesn’t mean you have no
| means of gaining commercial advantage. However, open source software is anti
| lock-in.
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| It’s a significant difference. An open source software solution will protect
| end users from being stuck with a poor support company or developer. Any
| capable organisation or person or group of people can be hired to take on the
| work.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22524/1143/
Becoming a Linux user, pitfalls and experiences
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| I've been a Linux user for some years now, and I've decided to start
| documenting the process I went trough.
| Today I might be seen as a Linux guru from the point of view of a starting
| user, from the point of view of a Linux guru I'm probably more seen as a
| starting user. I see myself as an intermediate, but even as my knowledge
| level might not be top level, On this day I do manage a business network, a
| few mail servers and web servers running a few hundred web sites. I do all
| this with relative ease and I could not have known I would be doing so much
| with Linux on the moment I started going down this path.
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http://www.theothersolution.nl/blog1.php/2009/01/03/becoming-a-linux-user-pitfalls-and-exper
Recent:
Talking with Pactolus' Ken Osowski
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| KO: Absolutely, companies like ours can profit from open services — through
| service, support, integration, and session licensing. In our case, we have
| open-sourced the applications and frameworks, and we generate revenue for the
| underlying platform software. This lets us simplify and cost-reduce service
| creation for service providers and for independent developer/integrators, and
| license the run-time sessions so that we derive revenues when the service
| provider does, as usage grows.
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| Other open source models take a hardware approach by locking the developer
| and service provider into buying proprietary appliances, another approach to
| deriving revenue. With Pactolus, there’s a well-defined line between the SDP
| and the applications themselves, thus providing a clear line of demark
| between the two code bases. An SCE generates the applications that run on the
| platform.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/broadband-telephony/articles/47852-talking-with-pactolus-ken-osowski.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8fxscy
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