On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Gaurav Mishra <gauravtec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Businesses don't buy softwares, they buy solutions. Which inevitably solve > there one or other problem. > If you are looking forward to ideate onto a product , get into product > development , create marketing/sales system , create a delivery channel > , fix bugs/releases and create a efficient support system for your > consumers. Great , go ahead do it. But have atleast a million dollars and > couple of years with you before making a sustainable business venture.
This was the main reason of all this discussions. As I was wondering, how can one put his project model to put on risk, while considering both, the best and the worst cases in mind. > There are tons of proprietary softwares coming out daily and they will > continue to be out in the market. FOSS model works perfectly when you want > to crowdsource all the effort including development, bug fixing > , delivery channel and marketing. All this while still you own the > software. > Imagine the amount of marketing spend you have to do if you need to make > apache , firefox a brand which it is currently. It's a very smart way to > create a sustainable brand , rest of money will follow from various other > ways. > Look at Wordpress (Matt), Canonical (Mark) and read through > there entrepreneurial journey, these guys get the FOSS culture and mass > needs perfectly and cashing it out for there own good. It's a very smart way > of doing business, only when you get it perfectly. > And in the end there is always the freelancing model of work through which > hundreds of indian freelancers and IT professionals are making crores each > year. A perfect need of market where a client A needs some solution and > freelancer B takes some open source software customize it with the client > need and meet the solution of client. A is always charged of the full > software value and the open source software benefits from > the customization and module development B has done. A win win situation for > everyone. :) And yes, this point makes a perfect sense, how profit can be made so easily with FOSS. > My two cents. > Regards, > Gaurav Mishra > > # Blog: http://www.gmishra.com > # Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmishra > # LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravmishra7 > >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Sagar Belure >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ilugd mailing list >> Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org >> http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > -- Thanks, Sagar Belure Security Analyst Secfence Technologies www.secfence.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
