On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran <selva_...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> > Hello all, > Can anyone explain the economics of a typical FOSS based business... > Say for example, if we take a FOSS company like Mozilla, what is its exact > business model ? > Since Mozilla software is free to download, where does the company actually > making money ? > This economic side of FOSS is still vague in many of our minds in this mailing list including me. We just saw sun being valued for 6 Billion USD. According to market cap and revene data, I would say Redhat should be valued little less than Sun. Together Sun and Redhat are the two most important and successful FOSS companies out in todays industry. PS: I don't answer your question. But I guess these data are relevant. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
