From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,afb4d45672b1e262 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how? Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:41:36 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <7NOdne-iYtWmIafZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@megapath.net> <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1144915266 3766 195.25.228.57 (13 Apr 2006 08:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:01:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3809 Date: 2006-04-13T09:41:36+02:00 List-Id: I can't resist dropping in and mentionning the model of AdaControl: A company (in this case Eurocontrol) pays for the initial development, and releases the software as free software. Then other companies pay for improvements. In the end, every interested company paid for only a fraction of the whole development cost, and everybody benefits of the whole product. See my paper in the December 2005 issue of the Ada User Journal for details. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr