This sounds very interesting. I was recently met with Dr Tarique Sani, an Open Source advocate from Nagpur, and he was mentioning six models from earning a living from Free/Libre and Open Source Software. My friend Abhas Abhinav of Deeproot Linux has also written a cover story on 'How to Eat Open Source' some time back for DeveloperIQ. Just cc'ing this to them. FN
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Trevor Warren wrote:
Hello FN, How about having a contest on framing Business models based on Free Software.
I am sure we can rope in some sponsors and then get them to foster the young minds to build a feasible buisiness model based on FSF/OS.
Lemme know if this interests you. We can figure out the modalitities later. I would like to run this on an all india level.
Bye for now.
Trevor
On 16 Dec 2002 13:57:42 -0000 ilug-goa@yahoogroups.com wrote:
The following ilug-goa poll is now closed. Here are the final results:
POLL QUESTION: Is it possible to make a living from Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)?
CHOICES AND RESULTS
- No way, you must be kidding..., 0 votes, 0.00%
- Mmmm... I'm not sure about this, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Maybe, under certain circumstances, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Yes, I'm confident I could do it, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Why not?, 0 votes, 0.00%
- For individuals and small firms yes, not for large companies with
overheads, 0 votes, 0.00% - It's possible, but different business models need to be adopted, 3 votes, 60.00% - You can making a living (or more)... but not your millions, 1 votes, 20.00% - This is the wrong premise on which to start a debate about FLOSS, 0 votes, 0.00%
- This is a very crucial question that needs to be first answered, 0
votes, 0.00% - Proprietorial software has given us wrong ideas about how to earn from software, 0 votes, 0.00% - FLOSS could expand the market and create tonnes of more work, 0 votes, 0.00% - Giving away code for free would kill potential for creativity, 0 votes, 0.00% - Show us models that work, and we'll be convinced, 0 votes, 0.00% - How does RMS make his living anyway?, 1 votes, 20.00%
INDIVIDUAL VOTES
- No way, you must be kidding...
- Mmmm... I'm not sure about this
- Maybe, under certain circumstances
- Yes, I'm confident I could do it
- Why not?
- For individuals and small firms yes, not for large companies with
overheads - It's possible, but different business models need to be adopted - saniltalaulikar@yahoo.com - fred@bytesforall.org - trevorwarren@yahoo.com
- You can making a living (or more)... but not your millions
- mario@alienwiz.com
- This is the wrong premise on which to start a debate about FLOSS
- This is a very crucial question that needs to be first answered
- Proprietorial software has given us wrong ideas about how to earn
from software - FLOSS could expand the market and create tonnes of more work - Giving away code for free would kill potential for creativity - Show us models that work, and we'll be convinced
- How does RMS make his living anyway?
- a7ash@yahoo.com