On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:43 PM, John Van Ostrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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----- "Khalid Baheyeldin" <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> For the question: "making money from open source", the answer is,<br>
> rightly, a lot of times: sell services. For others, it is "use<br>
> software to drive sales of your hardware or as a total solution".<br>
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</div>It's also about lowering costs (as a user of software), </blockquote><div><br>My statement was from the point of view of the producer of the software (Oracle, IBM, RedHat, ...etc.).<br><br>Definitely from a consumer point of view, it is that and everything you said about it (e.g. University of Waterloo and Drupal: zero license cost vs. RedDot, ...etc.)<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">or a strategic play to break a powerful monopoly and reduce future costs (speculation on IBM, Intel motives)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Agreed.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For software developers it may be about reducing the cost of a solutoin or about scaling their application from wristwatches to supercomputers and every platform in-between.<br>
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I imagine there are a wide range of other reasons too.<br></blockquote><div><br>Agreed.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
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