Comment Free Software as Business Model? Or not? Or maybe? (Score 1) 259
Free Software(Open Source, whatever) was not originally conceived as a business model. If you want to make tons of money(as the FSF song goes), don't do Open Source. If you want to make a little less money yet help your neighbor(again as the FSF song goes), develop Free Software
In my experience, Free Software has been developed by the people that use it. If it is their job to use or create it for someone else that uses it, then they will make money. No- they won't make piles of cash, but they'll have a lot more fun doing it.
In my experience, Free Software has been developed by the people that use it. If it is their job to use or create it for someone else that uses it, then they will make money. No- they won't make piles of cash, but they'll have a lot more fun doing it.
