We have made progress. Jacqui Caren wrote: > John Cooper wrote: >> If it was so easy we would all be a millionaires by now. Getting the >> business model right is still difficult for FLOSS projects, but some are >> making good money and are attracting investors.
This month I am working towards promising a 2-way (skills/experience <-> DIASER) B2B partnership that will provide Interlinux Ltd with core business and solve some of the DIASER early deployment and testing trust challenges. I can't release more details than that at the moment. For those that are interested Interlinux Ltd twitter is the place to view progress, I only tend to twitter significant events. ETA for this is early September, perhaps a little sooner. http://twitter.com/interlinux This thread (or crowdsourcing) would have helped. > It's initial development was funded by my employer and it was developed by > our then tech director. My boss would not say this himself but my gut feel is > that FLOSSing this code base ended up costing the company maybe a half mill > or so. Interlinux has been FLOSS from the start, FLOSS is the process:) > Quite simply there is a cost involved when you give software away - and some > of that cost is often unplanned. That is often true for any venture, fortunately I have been lucky to have the right sort of people advise so far. I should say, the unplanned costs I have faced last month are also partially a result of two consecutive family health emergencies. We have been so incredibly fortunate in both cases that speedy recovery occurred. -- Damian -- http://interlinux.co.uk - Interlinux Services DIASER RoadMap http://bit.ly/1Vtdp5 -- This message has been scanned by MailScanner. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------