How do open source companies make money?

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    arnab, Sep 10, 2008 IP
  2. dynashox

    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    Nice list and I never heard the name of the companies before.

    Free in Open Source doesn't mean it's free in term of price, but free in here mean that you're free to do anything with it. Just think the word free in "freedom".
     
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  3. Brandon Sheley

    Brandon Sheley Illustrious Member

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    usually if ti's free, it'll get more traffic eg.. phpbb vs vbulletin
    traffic equals money no matter how you look at it ;)
     
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    SEOnWebDesigning Banned

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    They are programmer from different parts of the world.They work for free........!
    Mozilla may be the best example.

    But the programmers working on this projects may be popular and indirectly they get works.
     
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    hmm, being popular makes you money by traffic and the adds that you have on your site, duuuhhhh
     
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    Shawn.B Banned

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    Yes they make a lot of money with traffic, or donations.
     
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    traffic, donation and status .....
    u can tell ur client, you're joomla, phpbb, mozilla, ubuntu programmer, i'm sure u get the project ... :)
     
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    lycos Well-Known Member

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    Mostly the funding comes from advertising. For instance, mozilla is getting money from sponsorship with a deal from google to place their page as a startup page.
     
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    I think they get from donations, Also the programmers just want to share their skills and thus they work for free
     
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    I think they have so much money already, so that they work for free as they don't need money any more.
     
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    There are a couple of ways to make money off free software. First, if you advertise on the download site you are going to get that ad revenue. Then the larger Linux distros and similar enterprise software charge for installation and support, which is probably the biggest source of income for companies like Red Hat or Eclipse and the like. Additionally donations and VC funding play a big part of funding open source.
     
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    lalitnagrath Banned

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    they earn by selling servers edition of ubuntu to enterprises
     
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    Don't most of those companies get Donations .. :)
     
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    they still can make money from advertising and donations. Just users dont need to pay for it doesn't mean nobody will give them the money. :D
     
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    You have a completely wrong definition of open source and free software. It is free as in freedom, not money. And no, opensource developers are not charity workers, most of them have families to feed and are paid to do their job.
     
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    i think they get from donations and advertisements
     
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    Some projects have financial backend by large companies.
    These companies make use of these projects for one of their products.
     
    yyahmee, Sep 11, 2008 IP