{"id":325,"date":"2006-01-25T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=72"},"modified":"2006-01-25T06:16:40","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T14:16:40","slug":"making-open-source-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Making open source profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of misunderstanding around the term Free Software (and FOSS) and how that relates to the need for the companies that support free software projects to survive in a largely commercial world. In particular, many developers are unwilling to release their code as open source because they see the release of that code as losing control over a valuable commodity, which could have a monetary value.   <\/p>\n<p>Today there are lots of products that provide free software, but do so while also having a valid commercial model.&nbsp; This enables them to charge for pre-packaged versions of the software, support and other, chargeable, components while still actually supporting the software on a free (i.e. open source) software model.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1646\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1646\" dc:title=\"Making open source profitable\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1646\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=3fHCK2\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=3fHCK2\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=72\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of misunderstanding around the term Free Software (and FOSS) and how that relates to the need for the companies that support free software projects to survive in a largely commercial world. In particular, many developers are unwilling to release their code as open source because they see the release of that code as losing control over a valuable commodity, which could have a monetary value. <\/p>\n<p>Today there are lots of products that provide free software, but do so while also have a valid commercial model that enables them to charge for pre-packaged versions of the software, support and other, chargeable, components while still actually supporting the software on a free (i.e. open source) software model.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1646\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1646\" dc:title=\"Making open source profitable\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1646\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=lSCOsi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=lSCOsi\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=72\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}