Making a Business of Open Source
Posted by Bob Warfield on October 4, 2007
I have little to add here other than to say that Joe Cooper has a great essay on how you go about making a business that makes money out of what looks at first glance like free software. It’s worth a read if you’ve ever been curious about the business of open source. His comments about hosted open source, which is a lot like combined SaaS and Open Source, are particularly useful.
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