Category: Open source

Does the open source professional services business model suck? 2

Open source / Opinion / Software development

2 Aug, 2008

Does the open source professional services business model suck?

Today I participated and lectured at an open source event. It was great to meet enthusiastic people that believe in something bigger then themselves. These events are always a mixture of young people full of vigor and need for rebellion as well as more balanced older people that have believed in open source for a long time.

I have been intrigued with open source and open source business models for a long time now, so I might belong to the second group.

Switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox? 2

Microsoft / Open source / Opinion / web

25 Jul, 2008

Switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox?

Lately, I seem to have a problem log-in into Gmail from my Internet Explorer, this happens both at work (IE over Vista) and at home (IE over XP). 

I get this wonderfully informative error message: 

gmail

Doing a couple of “refresh” helps sometimes.

But what really helps is using FireFox instead of Internet Explorer- This problem does not happen in FireFox.

How to make money from open source / open source revenue models 0

Open source

19 Jul, 2008

How to make money from open source / open source revenue models

A friend asked me the other day: “I heard you work for an open source company, must be frustrating not making money from your code… how can you make money if you give away your code and IP?”

Well, I have been asked this question many times, and it is time I put my answer in writing:
You do not make money out of open source. You can, however, use open source to create profitable revenue channels and sell other products and services that are related to open source.
There are at least three revenue models based on open source leveraging:

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