On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:59 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Get this clear: BEFORE you ask questions, you research and post the results of your research. Then others will reply based on your understanding or lack thereof.
Alright. The Revolution OS documentary which was made in 2001 shows difficulties Eric Raymond and other VA systems software developers were facing problems while implementing the projects and to get venture capital firms investments. Also, why was the term "Open Source" came into existence instead of "Free Software", and so the BSD license. And then, the Netscape's decision to make their source code open so to complete with Microsoft's IE.
And, so on and forth. But, the documentary and even some of links I got by googling are like late 90's.
I mean, if you think for now, say, "What? A browser for $$? Are you nuts to buy that?"
Also, for guy like me, dealing with all this Free and Open source world not even more than an year now, is not at all worth to refer that all. I wanted the real-time scenario, or should I say, how the market look at all this FOSS development life cycles.
One of the very good methods of making money is studying some topic of interest, then writing articles and holding seminars - one way of providing answers. Do you have the faintest clue how sought after are such people?.
I can't really imagine, people making a *real* business out of this.
FOSS is vast ecosystem of every concievable tool imaginable and invariably many thousand before you have faced the same problem and found solutions, usually by a bit of research, many suggestions and sometimes by writing code. The nature of the net is such that all such exchanges are archived and google throws up the answers.
But if you expect to sit on your derriere and get answers you are going nowhere.
Agreed. I wish I see that line, I wake up every morning out of my bed.