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Message: 1 Date: 9 Jan 2006 15:10:39 -0000 From: "Mishi Choudhary" mishi_c@rediffmail.com Subject: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 To: fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: 20060109151039.27120.qmail@webmail50.rediffmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
hello everyone since i am new to all this and allof you seem to be pros can u please spare sometime to answer certain questions i have .i'll look forward to hearing from you all can you please explain the economic viability of using free software? how are the developers of free software adequately compensated? how big is free software in comparison to proprietary software?
Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:38:00 +0530 From: "shibu c varughese" admin@itmission.org Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 To: "Mishi Choudhary" mishi_c@rediffmail.com, "Principal Support List of FSF-India" fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: op.s249rmdza7821a@ibm Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8
hi ..mishi, "open source" software, and is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License), this is the difference from other major systems. Open source can provide your application : speed, reliability, performance, portability and affordability....An example is the killer application [Apache], just check out the market share for the Apache web server at http://news.netcraft.com/...also do just check out A case study in open source business for Trolltech at http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/03/155235 this is just an example which tells how Trolltech is obviously a successful company.
Thanks, Shibu C V
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:40:39 +0530, Mishi Choudhary mishi_c@rediffmail.com wrote:
hello everyone since i am new to all this and allof you seem to be pros can u please spare sometime to answer certain questions i have .i'll look forward to hearing from you all can you please explain the economic viability of using free software? how are the developers of free software adequately compensated? how big is free software in comparison to proprietary software?
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:02:00 -0500 From: Harish Narayanan harish@gamebox.net Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 To: Mishi Choudhary mishi_c@rediffmail.com, Principal Support List of FSF-India fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: 43C2F978.3030903@gamebox.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Mishi Choudhary wrote:
hello everyone since i am new to all this and allof you seem to be pros can u please
spare sometime to answer certain questions i have .i'll look forward to hearing from you all
I am going to be very brief.
can you please explain the economic viability of using free software? how are the developers of free software adequately compensated?
Those two are related questions.
Functional business models around Free software mostly follow a path that involves releasing the software Free (as in freedom and price), and then charging the users for support or services around the core software. Often times, since people need customised variants of software to suit their specific needs, they can (and do) pay developers to work on modifying Free software to suit these requirements. This way, they get what they want without having to build things from scratch, and the software itself benefits as these improvements work their way back into the parent projects.
how big is free software in comparison to proprietary software?
It differs based on what areas you're looking at. At the core levels (the sorts of thing that drive the web: Apache, sendmail, ...), Free software is huge; much bigger than proprietary software. This is also quite true in realms such as high performance scientific computing in research at large universities (where distributions of GNU/Linux, gcc, Free numerical libraries rule the roost). If you were asking about the "desktop space", its installation base is much much smaller than proprietary software, like Windows. But I would be willing to wager it is in the order of magnitude of popularity as Mac OS X.
Harish
Message: 4 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:40:37 +0530 From: Manilal K M libregeek@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 To: Principal Support List of FSF-India fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: 2315046d0601092110g594e0a07n@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Dear Mishi, I hope the book *Innovation happens elsewhere* may be a good starting point to know how you can make business using Free/Open source and how to participate in Free/open Source projects. It's available online at http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html and is licensed using Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
regards Manilal
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