Hello everybody, I am a computer science student about to graduate. The open source revolution seems to be very fine except for one thing; Most volunteers are people who work for software companies and who develop Open Source software in their spare time. We have still not addressed one question "How to make Open Source a profitable Industry" because money after all is a sad fact of life and we all need it. What kind of business model will make Open Source a money making endeavour so that people like myself do not have to work for some propriety software manufacturing firm but give our full attention to the development of open source softwares. I think that will revolutionize the world by making open source the first choice rather than an afterthought. How can we make open source software witholding all the principles of the GPL and still become a successful and profitable venture ? Any thoughts ? goodbye Mayukh ** sorry for the length of the letter, i seem to be too verbose :)
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