[ILUG-BOM] How does Open Source guys earn there bread and butter?

[jtd]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 13:01, jtd wrote:
>
> FOSS relies on making widely available ALL tools necessary for
> creating software. It also understands that debugging, maintaining
> and customising code is expensive. Further it presumes that most
> people have moments of creativity and hence harnessing that
> creativity will build a large pool of ideas. Thus the business
> model is to leverage everbody's idea and code in return for one's
> own contribution (miniscule in comparison to others'
> contributions), parallel the review and debugging process, and
> charge for
> distribution, customisation, maintainence and or ride other
> services made possible by using FOSS.
>
> Commercial Distributions
> RH, Canonical aka Ubuntu, Novell aka Suse, etc
>
> Customisation
> KG, JTD, RH,
>
> Maintanence
> KG, Rony Bill, JTD, RH, Canonical
>
> Services
> Google, Jabber, Yahoo

Forgot to add Saswata, Mitul and many others on the list.

The names here are indicative of the massive range of business models 
and sizes.

-- 
Rgds
JTD