[room] Можно ли заработать на OpenSource?

[Vasily Kolomeets]

Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:08:48PM +0400, Alexei V. Mezin wrote:
>> Тут коллеги (нисколько не программисты) интересуются, а можно ли
>> заработать на OpenSource-проектах.
> http://www.winterspeak.com/columns/102901.html неплохо поясняет.

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We vastly prefer to make a living off of software licensing, not services.
In fact, three quarters of the money we make comes from licensing, and only
a quarter from support and related services. Given that, it's much more in
Sleepycat's interest to have our high-powered developers working on
features that we can go sell to lots of customers, rather than projects
that we can sell to just one or two.
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Мне вот интересно, на чём будут зарабатывать компании, которых сейчас кормит
двойная лицензия когда FLOSS-продукты станут оч.-оч. распространёнными?
Сейчас, по сути они живут за счёт продаж проприетарщиков.

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to
be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?