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Seven Open Source Business Strategies
Openstandards.net writes "One of /. posters' favorite discussions is the value of open source as a business model. OSDN has an article on IT Manager's Journal that highlights seven business strategies for open source. " Slashdot and ITMJ are both owned by OSDN.
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This is specific to games where you may develop the engine using open source tools and release the engine as open source, but charge for all your data files the engine uses for your particular game.
Let's take a look at gaming development under the GLP. It offers an excellant case-study of how GNUlatic-ism will destory America.
1. NetHack: This game promises to connect your computer to a "net"work and expose it to "hack"ers. This is not a good model for a law-abiding company
2. Frozen Bubble: I'm not up on the street-lingo these days, but I'm 101% sure this is a drug reference; perhaps to "crystal methane" or "the acid". Do you want drug users working for your firm? Is that a way to be profitable? Also, I believe it comes from France, that notorious hangout for Maoists and ne'er-do-wells.
3. Klotski: Like many pinko names, it begins with a "K-" and ends with a "-ski". It's also affiliated with a sinister group of known East German "hackers" whose avowed goal is to "conqer" the American workplace.
I could proffer further examples, but any healthy-minded citizen will clearly see that GLP games encourage roguery of the worst kind and are unsuitable for emulation by the large, dependable corporations upon which our Constitution is based.
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1. Work for Microsoft
2. Help Microsoft consolidate 100% of the software industry
3. Microsoft outsources your job to India
4. Beg for food since there's nobody other than Microsoft to work for in the software industry!
There's an open source business model?
Smeghead every day of the week.
Demand more allowance!
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
As always, this scenario is much simpler with OSS:
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1. Write an Open Source program for free
2. See the guy in India maintaining it for money
.... don't actually create a competitive product, fire all your coders and replace them with lawyers, and sue everyone in existence in hopes that somebody will give you money to leave them alone?
Of course, that strategy has yet to be proven, and it seems to have a few holes in it....
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
But what are they doing with them? Is this like collecting action figures and leaving them in the package? Does Bill have a roomful of never-opened developers?