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Possible answers (one or mix of more, depending on type of audience): | Possible answers (one or mix of more, depending on type of audience): | ||
FOSS companies like Redhat, Novell, JBoss[1] ... make money by selling services like support for FOSS products. | FOSS companies like Redhat, Novell, JBoss[1] ... make money by selling services like support for FOSS products. | ||
==What kind of an economic model does an entrepreneur look at when he starts out with free software? == | |||
[http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Richard_Stallman RMS] from an [http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/08/31/stories/2006083100441500.htm interview to The Hindu]. | |||
I want to ask you why that question is worth asking. First of all there are many people who don't have to make money. Importantly even if a person has to make a living, he doesn't have to make a living from everything he does. | |||
Lots of people develop free software in their free time and there are people who have to make a living and they do make a living. | |||
To jump from, this person is not rich and therefore has to work, to, this person can't write free software because he is not paid to write it, is an error. | |||
There are over a million contributors to free software, a substantial fraction is getting paid and a majority are volunteers. | |||
I suspect the reason people bring up this question of economics as a secondary detail is because they are labouring under the misconception that the free software community is impossible, unless the developers are getting paid. | |||
==How do I organise a FOSS event in my campus?== | ==How do I organise a FOSS event in my campus?== | ||