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Profiting from Open Source Software
Secret Santa writes "Alex Salkever has written an inspiring and Linux-friendly piece about Martin Roesch -- how he went from writing open-source software to building a multimillion dollar company. Excerpt: 'Sourcefire is one of a growing number of small software players that have built new businesses around open-source code. Their business models contain various mixes of proprietary and open-source software components and span the software gamut, from other security companies such as Tripwire to database outfits such as MySQL and desktop-computing offerings like Xandros. Most are still small, with revenues well under $50 million.'"
You can add spyware to your app and sell it to download.com in order to make money .... cough ...cough
http://saveie6.com/
This article defines "2. ????". Dare I read it?
I don't want to fiddle with config files buried /deep/in/your/ass. /etc and ~/.etc are good enough for me, thank you.
You must be new to our planet, everything causes suicide in japan.
>> Who, in this day and age, wants to edit just text
um, ever hear of source code?
If someone writes a compiler that changes behaviour based on colours or fonts, I will personally bury my foot deep/in/their/ass.