opensource: is commercial software usual licence: general public licence (gpl) bsd earn: paid support for your own project enterprise upgrades: paid addon, subscription editions commercially packaged knowledge and training install, customize, enhance for money makes the os product better for new customers service instead of licence people pay for open source hamburgers printed manuals and cds relicencing and sell libraries and engines to integrate in non opensource you need written permission of all original authors one can earn from existing open source projects grants can be copyrighted actions research pros and cons of licencing and businnes models see people around os projects see existing projects -> enhance? talk to community package marketing the fact that it is os perpetual code escrow should know the code best changes are difficult manage community contributions community needs vs making money balance no open source businnes model: jverberg.posterous.com/open-source-businnes-model "A open source software businnes model simply doesn't exist, by definition. You can't charge for the software. [...] I think your businnes model should be around something else than the software. Let it go, you are not selling software anymore." "The question you should be asking is 'How can a company make money, if it gives away software for free?'" strategies: optimization dual licensse consulting subscription patronage: drive the standards host embed you don't support open source, open source supports you alternative: open source doesn't threaten custom-built software custom-built software 95% software cost is 0 http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2001041200620OPBZCY-- "who wll invest in software development if it doesn't yeld a return?" open source is no dumping only who doesn't rely on the software can give it away for free create additional copies of a software costs nothing laws impose a system of artificial scarcity: inefficient if making the software doesn't cost you anything, then it does not have to have a return follows: make open source software only because it makes sense for it to exist it is not a businnes model it is just a way of getting what you need therefore any open source software (whether existing or developed with a community) shall be just a mean "software stands alone in its twin characteristics of infinite replicability and amortisability of effort" "Looked at this way, open source seems the more natural and efficient way to build software" "perhaps corporations shouldn't develop software at all!" "open source software is a substitute, not a competitor, to the entire category of proprietary commercial software." "Is it possible to make money off open source? In the light of all that we have discussed, this now seems a rather petty and inconsequential question to ask. There is great wealth that will be created through Open Source in the coming months and years, and very little of that will have anything to do with money." what I can offer knowledge, intelligence, competence, time so the ability to make software is worth nothing? the time spent developing? production: work -> existence, availability to everyone who would pay for the production of software that everyone can have then? who would pay for the "existence" of software rather than for its ownership? maybe someone wants a software to exist, because if it exists, they profit? the disadvantage of other people having vs the advantage of having it: where is the first smaller than the second? many small payments mix tra kickstarter e guru.com chiunque può proporre progetti dei gruppi di developer si propongono i partecipanti di un gruppo possono votare per il prezzo chiunque può donare soldi a uno o a un altro gruppo+progetto il prezzo giusto: quanto ci vuole per chi lo produce a vivere il tempo necessario per la produzione nel caso del software: molto la prima volta, più nulla dopo