But basically two models immediatelly comes to mind. Sell the peace of mind aspect, garantee (Don't have a clue how to spell this and no time).
And the other possibility is the expertize, people are willing to pay because they trust the person that sell's or supports the project.
Again it all depends on the project and the market. Make a deal with another company that have a complementary project let them pay for the development or alternativelly sell bundles with your stuff included.
Eg. Development project sell a Redhat CD with your product included a nice smile and support for the whole set of product for 6 month with direct access to experts in the field. Keep a constant contact with your customers ad I promise you they will be hooked. Add to that the possibility that you can sell the installation and the training for the product (training is kewl because even if the product is very easy to use people will still pay for it.)
Suffice it to say it is possible to sell alsmost anytnhig related to the product. Just think of it as a service industry and your home free. Sell your time your services.
I tond to agree with many a thing sad in the article. But what seems to be missing is that in the Micrsoft only world the research is done by Microsoft for Microsoft. The fact is Microsoft has an enourmous research lab and half the research that would have made a big difference never made it into a product "bean counters".
What is imoprtant to remember in the linux world is that the base system is alread there. It's open it's available. When doing research on new way of impelementing speading up optimizing. The biggest problem is to first build a system that you can do your research on eg. Issolate and meassure.
Although many of the thing in the Linux kernel is not novell some are. The important thing here is that a researcher has base to work from replacing parts of the system with better ways of doing things even meassuring different way to do eg. Scheduling by just adding and removing different models.
Linux allows for this not just in the Kernel but in things like GUI design.
This sounds stupid but this one of the main advantages I see in Linux. As far as NT and inovation goes. The ideas might be good but the implementation seem to be a bit lacking.
Linux in terms of kernel is still young. But it's growing fast. Linux have been playing catch up for some time now. Once it's past that stage I think that the inovation (which can be seen in some product already) will start to came fast.
Free Software is unfortunatelly the only way to kick start the Software industry.
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It depends on the project,
But basically two models immediatelly comes to mind. Sell the peace of mind aspect, garantee (Don't have a clue how to spell this and no time).
And the other possibility is the expertize, people are willing to pay because they trust the person that sell's or supports the project.
Again it all depends on the project and the market. Make a deal with another company that have a complementary project let them pay for the development or alternativelly sell bundles with your stuff included.
Eg. Development project sell a Redhat CD with your product included a nice smile and support for the whole set of product for 6 month with direct access to experts in the field. Keep a constant contact with your customers ad I promise you they will be hooked. Add to that the possibility that you can sell the installation and the training for the product (training is kewl because even if the product is very easy to use people will still pay for it.)
Suffice it to say it is possible to sell alsmost anytnhig related to the product. Just think of it as a service industry and your home free. Sell your time your services.
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I tond to agree with many a thing sad in the article. But what seems to be missing is that in the Micrsoft only world the research is done by Microsoft for Microsoft. The fact is Microsoft has an enourmous research lab and half the research that would have made a big difference never made it into a product "bean counters".
What is imoprtant to remember in the linux world is that the base system is alread there. It's open it's available. When doing research on new way of impelementing speading up optimizing. The biggest problem is to first build a system that you can do your research on eg. Issolate and meassure.
Although many of the thing in the Linux kernel is not novell some are. The important thing here is that a researcher has base to work from replacing parts of the system with better ways of doing things even meassuring different way to do eg. Scheduling by just adding and removing different models.
Linux allows for this not just in the Kernel but in things like GUI design.
This sounds stupid but this one of the main advantages I see in Linux. As far as NT and inovation goes. The ideas might be good but the implementation seem to be a bit lacking.
Linux in terms of kernel is still young. But it's growing fast. Linux have been playing catch up for some time now. Once it's past that stage I think that the inovation (which can be seen in some product already) will start to came fast.
Free Software is unfortunatelly the only way to kick start the Software industry.