Introduction to Open Source software and How to make revenue from Open Source Software.

1. Kick Start to Open Source Tharindu Dassanayake

3. version of what makes a program run.

6. Pay for the maintenance and support

7. FREE means not the COST Four Freedoms 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpos 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour 3. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

8. Pros and Cons

10. Customizable

13. Unified Experience

15. Can not Make customized changes to it

16. Business Models for Open Source

18. your main site.

19. Run a Kicstarter or IndieGoGo campaign. http://www.kickstarter.com http://www.indiegogo.com/ Companies sell product, and Beggars take donations

21. T-shirts, coffee mugs, squeezy toys and so on.

22. Cafe Press to make and sell your merchandise. http://www.cafepress.com

24. Different features, integration with their existing software.

25. You can get paid at an hourly rate or at a fixed rate for delivery of the functionality.

27. You just buy the box it runs in.

29. First, you must have a restrictive license,

30. and you must have copyright on all of the software.

31. Second, you must have software that’s useful to

32. third-party developers.

33. AGPL is good for this for Web sites, and GPL is

34. good for libraries or development tools.

36. can be really valuable.

38. software is to use it as a conduit for a proprietary

39. service.

40. Firefox; Mozilla derives tens of millions of dollars of

41. annual revenue from their Open Source browser by

42. selling the space as the default home page to Google.

43. Find Your Own But.. You shouldn’t go into a new startup without at least thinking of all these options.

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