Mark
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Posted: June 20, 2009 04:36 by Mark
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Greetings, I was at JavaOne and got inspired. I have some cool project ideas, but how does anyone make money. Like OpenSolaris and OpenOffice, where do they get their income? I'm all for Open Source, but I still need an income. One problem I see is when I put my project online, what keeps someone from jumping on it for them selves? Am I missing something? My first thought is to build V.0001 then blast it out so everyone where it originated. Someone please enlighten me. I may be just getting too old.  -- Mark Rogers |
Open Source & Income
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Joseph Areeda
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Posted: June 21, 2009 12:53 by Joseph Areeda
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Mark, I've been struggling with this for a while also and I'm in the testing the waters stage IOW my opinion is pretty worthless. As I understand the concept as a business model it works sort of like this: Open Sourcing a good idea brings others into the development stage so the R&D cost of the project goes way down, and done properly the quality goes up due to the increased exposure during development and greater testing. While there is no income from the sales of executable code there are other opportunities for billable services such as training, consulting and publishing documentation, hosting conferences .... It seems Sun has found a way generate adequate income to make the model worthwhile. I'm still not sure how big and complicated a project has to be to be profitable. Joe |
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