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Who said Linux couldn't make you money?
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| But someone has done it, and done it well.
| That someone? The Linux Box. The âBoxâ was
| established in 1999 in order to provide
| regional, national, and international
| customers with support for open source
| technologies. On top of that, they commit
| 20% of their budget back into open source
| software development (to projects like
| OpenAFS, Moodle, Drupal, dotProject,
| Jobby, Squid, and more). Located in Ann
| Arbor Michigan, The Linux Box works
| closely with the community and has built
| its business around close collaboration
| with customers.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1564
Show me the money...
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| Every day I come to work, I get excited
| about the possibilities of the power of
| participation: to solve complex problems,
| to share knowledge, to bring people
| together. Opensource.com has been a great
| vehicle for me to learn and participate in
| a dialog about the power of open source
| principlesâ-especially when applied beyond
| software.
|
| I believe together we can solve many of
| the most complex problems our world faces.
| I also believe strongly that we, as a
| society, will never fully realize the full
| potential of the power of participation
| unless and until we find vehicles for
| individuals and institutions (both public
| and private) to directly profit from it.
|
| [...]
|
| Red Hat is an example: our mission is to
| be the catalyst in communities. Our
| community/enterprise model clearly works,
| but we need to find more business models
| to encourage others to play catalytic
| roles and foster their own communities of
| participation.
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http://opensource.com/business/10/5/show-me-money
How to Sell Linux
http://linuxandall.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/how-to-sell-linux/
Recent:
Canonical's services play: Revenue windfall or trap?
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| It's tough to compete in an industry where
| your customers expect your product to be
| free. Such is the case with software, where
| giveaways have seemingly become the norm.
| (Try selling a Web browser or an audio
| player in 2010.) Some developers have
| turned to advertising to underwrite their
| efforts. More recently, a few software
| vendors have begun offering Internet
| services as a way to add value to their
| products and raise revenue. But the latter
| model is not without its pitfalls.
|
| Take Canonical, for example. The company
| behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution now
| offers cloud-based data synchronization
| services under the Ubuntu One brand. You
| can get 2GB of storage for free; $10 per
| month gets you 50GB. Soon Canonical will be
| expanding its offering to include contact
| synchronization for smartphones -- also for
| a fee -- and an Ubuntu One Music Store as a
| Linux-based competitor to iTunes.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/canonicals-services-play-revenue-windfall-or-trap-878
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