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Making Money In Open Source

Posted by Hemos on from the how-to-make-money-in-open-source dept.

Khalid writes "An interview with Sleepycat President and CEO, Michael Olson, it brings a lot of interesting information about their business model and licensing scheme. A lot of good ideas, when a lot of open source based companies are struggling for life. "

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  1. You guys are just too funny by pvera · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's see...

    "Microsoft is evil"

    "Microsoft is an anticompetitive monopoly"

    ".net is the end of the world as we know it"

    "Fuck the RIAA"

    "You can pry my DECSS from my cold, dead fingers"

    Then you turn around and peddle open source as a way of making money.

    Oxymoron anyone?

    Pedro
    http://veraperez.com

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    Pedro
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    The Insomniac Coder
  2. Re:It's a cultural thing... by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Have you ever just considered developing proprietary software....?

    This is exactly the problem... OSS is developed by college kids living off of mommy and daddy, or by people in their free time because they think it's 'kewl', and that same work literally takes food out of the mouths of professional programmers who program to make a living. Right now, 99.99% of all IT jobs are NOT in developing OSS. But if enough people develop OSS code, there will be less and less need for 'professional' programmers. Thus, there'll be a bunch of people programmign for free, while their day job is at Dairy Queen. Nice. Real nice.

  3. Re:Making "money" vs "a living" by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly. Me too. That's exactly why I don't develop anything OSS. College kids don't seem to realize that once you have mortgage payments and a family (ie: once you grow up), that OSS is no longer fun or 'kewl'.