On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 16:48, Mayukh Datta Roy wrote:
I am a computer science student about to graduate.
First of all you mailed to wrong list by saying open source rather `free software' every where in your post.
Please read -
* http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html * http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
The open source revolution
The free software revolution.
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.
It has been addressed a long time when free software campaign was started. Please read http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
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.
Please read -
* http://news.com.com/2009-1023-207622.html * http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836385,00.asp
I think that will revolutionize the world by making open source the first choice rather than an afterthought.
That's going on.
How can we make open source software witholding all the principles of the GPL and still become a successful and profitable venture ?
examples -
FSF, Inc (http://fsf,org) - though non-profitable, but earning some money - http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/ RedHat, Inc, Novell, etc
- Ramprasad B