Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how?

From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:41:36 +0200

I can't resist dropping in and mentionning the model of AdaControl:

A company (in this case Eurocontrol) pays for the initial development, and releases the software as free software. Then other companies pay for improvements. In the end, every interested company paid for only a fraction of the whole development cost, and everybody benefits of the whole product.

See my paper in the December 2005 issue of the Ada User Journal for details.

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