Thanks Bharath.. But still I don't understand what is wrong in selling a piece of code.
As an end user, I am experiencing the advantages of open source. But I am yet to understand what is fundamentally wrong in selling a piece of code. Waiting for replies:) On May 8, 7:56 am, Bharat Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Madhukar, > > > From the day I came to know about Open Source I have a few questions. > > This may be due to an incorrect understanding of the Open Source > > philosophy. > > > What is Open Source? Is it against selling the software itself, or > > hiding the source code from the users? > > I will not comment on this, because you will need to find out this > yourself. One understands open source well by involving and > participating in open source projects. > > > Is it possible to run a profitable software services/product business > > by sharing the source code with the users? If there are any such > > companies, how are they faring when compared to other proprietary > > software companies? > > Many of big and successful companies like Google, Yahoo, IBM, Oracle, > Redhat and many more companies own sizeable open source code base. > Most reputed number of projects like Apache, Samba, Eclipse, VideoLan > player, MySQL, Android, Java, Git etc are open source. > > As for your question - "Are companies using open source profitable" ?, > you should also have a look at Zresearch - a fully open source > company, which develops user space cluster file system, scalable to > peta bytes named "Gluster". You also have Canonical which owns and > runs Ubuntu. Then you have the venerable Shashi who runs Informedia, > an increasingly growing company. I wrote a C++ wrapper over open souce > VLC api at work recently. So there are REALLY companies making use of > open source tools/code along with closed source, FYI or just them to > churn out money. > > Thanks, > > -- Bharat |http://twitter.com/shettyb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
