[Gllug] Lonix - London Linux User Group 'Open Source Software ' - Eric S Raymond Talk

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Thu 28 Feb, tet at accucard.com bloviated thus:

> Aaah, yes. That'll be the fabled "give it away free, they'll come to
> me for support because I know the product" business plan that worked
> so well for all those dot coms :-)

The dot coms had NO business plan.  That was the problem.

> It's not impossible to make money from GPL software, but it *is* very
> difficult, and virtually unheard of on a large scale.

There are an enormous number of small and large consultants out there
making a fortune from the free software.  They make money from
services and save their clients money by not having to pay license
fees to a third party.

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