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| DATE | 2015-06-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] making money with open source - John Walker
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On 06/02/2015 08:26 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
>
>> I haven't read muh on, OK - here is how we make money as a Free
>> Software based business, and frankly, I disagree with much of what he
>> wrote. I was hoping it would cause a conversation because trying to
>> make money is on the TOP of the NYLXS agenda.
> Disagreement with what the CEO is claimed to have said is very much the
> lesser problem. The greater problem is that the entire article is inane
> and says nothing.
>
> It would help a lot if you would say, when you post URLs, why you think
> they're interesting.
>
>
Because the first part of the article discussed the number of compaines
that were pure Open Source and why they made money, and that premise i
disagreed with: ie that Red Hat was unique in that is was the sole free
software business to make money: As oposed to IBM, SUSE and even Google?)
The key to making money with free Software and ALL software is the ole
Service Contract. If your not updating, upgrade and providing service
for clients, your fucked, regardless if the software is Free or not. So
I have a difference of opinion with his starting proposition, although I
agreed with much of it.
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