Posts Tagged ‘business model’

How does the open source software business model works for company like google? How would they earn money other than releasing their own hardware products that works only with their particular software…

I’m looking for companies similar to MySQL, SugarCRM, rPath, etc..
that have a business model based on editing an Open Source platform.
(their own platform, i’m not looking for integrators).

I am starting an a social networking-type sight targeting Chinese users. Are business model is based on businesses marketing to users of our social network. I am currently searching for freelancers to build the site for me. If they use an open source content management system or other open source frameworks in the site, will I run into legal problems or have to pay licensing fees to someone?

How do the developers get paid if nobody buys the software, just get it free, and that too with source code? I can understand it about amateur software developers. But I recently heard that Sun is coming out with Open Source Unix this year. How will they profit from this? If not, how will they survive?

Is there an advantage of the open source model in terms of software quality? Do you see that in real life in terms of the open source software that you use?