"So this said person gives away his software for free, and sells the service of installing it for his clients. No body knows the software as well as he does, and not all clients want to mess around with hacking a software to customize to their needs. So this guy is bound to get work based on his services. IF he has a get-rich-quick idea in mind, I am sorry, but FOSS isn't his area. Let him stick to closed source - in which case there is a 90+% chance that he will fail (in keeping with market norm). "

but then that would tempt Person X to keep the installation bit an uneasy procedure since that is his/her only source of bread.

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:58:12 -0800 (PST), amal manuel amalmanuel@yahoo.com wrote:

hello, i guess you might have received a lot of answers. instead of repeating all that here. can you just brief all the answers you got and your counter-args, since it will reduce the no of threads. regards, amal

--- Ankit Malik ankitmalik@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi

I know this is an old question! In fact I have asked this at loads of places but with no satisfactory answer.

I hope you guys answer it >>

"Mr. X is a software developer. He develops a Software Y and releases it as free [as in freedom and beer] So how does he earn money" --

~amal "its always darkest, before it goes pitch black"

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