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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