[OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

[Frans Thamura]

i am glad if the support services linked in the osgeo.org website also, to
bring "corporate" trust

and a contact, that may be we can link to bring great branding program


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2009/11/25 Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>

> Hi All,
>
> Nice to see responses to the intresting thread started bu
> Daniele.
>
> I think what Daniele is looking for is some kind of
> a "How to convince a venture (or social) captitalist
> to invest in FOSS4G technnologies and/or companies".
> Guess the venture capitalist would be inerested to
> see some statistical data on how FOSS4G based companies
> are growing elsewhere and what are their core business
> stratagies.
>
> Hope is see some intresting ideas emanating from this
> thread.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > One more reference:
> >
> > Wikipedia's history of open source
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_history) has a pretty good
> > discussion
> > of the early days of software development - when pretty much everything
> > was open source, but the term had
> > not been coined yet.
> >
> > Miles
> >
> > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >> Charlie,
> >>
> >> Charlie Schweik wrote:
> >>
> >>> See
> >>>
> http://www.umass.edu/opensource/schweik/Chapter_2_schweik_final_draft.pdf
> >>>
> >>> This book still is being finalized and not yet published. If anyone on
> >>> this list reads this chapter, I'd appreciate any comments you may have.
> >>> If you Daniele, or anyone else uses content from this in some capacity,
> >>> I'd appreciate you contacting me so I can give you information on how
> to
> >>> cite it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Since you asked.... :-)
> >>
> >> A few comments:
> >>
> >> 1.  I seriously question the characterization of open source as
> primarily driven by volunteers.
> >> History says otherwise.
> >>
> >> 2. I'd look for some better sources re. monitary support for early open
> source projects.
> >> If you look a little harder, you'll find that almost all widely-used
> open source software
> >> started with somebody who was working at a job that paid them to write
> an initial
> >> code base - be it working on a a government contract or grant, or
> working on software
> >> as in internal IT staffer.
> >>
> >> The examples I always point to are:
> >>
> >> - Apache (started as the NCSA web daemon)
> >>
> >> - Unix (it all goes back to Bell Labs, with the BSD variations going
> back to Berkeley)
> >>
> >> - Sendmail
> >>
> >> - Postgres
> >>
> >> And the list goes on.  (One interesting list of very early projects:
> http://eu.conecta.it/paper/Some_dates_open_source.html)
> >>
> >> Yes, a sizeable portion of contributors are volunteers - but some
> historical spelunking quickly points out that most projects
> >> started with someone who was being paid for their time.  (Richard
> Stallman might be the exception, though MIT provided
> >> for his support in various forms).
> >>
> >> 3. Historically, the motivations you list as "academic and scientific
> motivation #2 and #3" are the earliest and oldest motivations
> >> for open source code - dating back to the period when government funded
> work automatically entered the public domain (thus
> >> predating the entire notion of open source licenses).  Almost ALL early
> software was funded by the government (notably
> >> DARPA and NSF), was shared as academic research, and automatically
> entered the public domain.
> >>
> >> Hope this is useful,
> >>
> >> Miles Fidelman
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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