Re: Boy Scout Open Source

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:45:14AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> 
> I would agree. however, a possible future meeting topic this brings to 
> mind is a discussion about what OSS is, what it means to the end users, 
> both personal desktop users but also to organizations that run servers. 
> And, on top of this is how does a business based on OSS make money. 

I'll tell you how Smartleaf, Inc. makes money: we depend on OSS to 
lower our costs, and increase our reliability. We contribute back to 
OSS projects and start our own. But the making-money-function lies in 
providing a high quality service to our customers, not in selling or 
licensing software to them.  Banks can't roll out a software change 
weekly, but we can make changes every night in response to what our 
customers need. 

Not every business depending on OSS is selling software -- but 
most of them would need a large crew of consultants or internal 
staff to customize commercial software or write their own 
otherwise. 

-dsr- 

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