My 2 cents: even open source development has a business model, they dont just sell the software, but i bet you they sell something they do sell, maybe even not to you. Consider for a moment ubuntu, open bravo, sugar crm, joomla, even google. They offer stuff and services for free, but behind the scenes they have solid business models. If you ask me, reason many developers are not doing open source is because according to our teachers, open source software is software that is developed and given out free of charge instead of teaching oss as a business model. Way forward, lets talk open source software as a business. On 8/9/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Laban. Wow! This is indeed the heights of things... :-( . Incase you miss a sponser in the next few days after your mail below, pls let me know offlist and I'll see what can be done..... no promises but will try my level best.
Rgds.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Lmwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All, While we are on this vein, http://opensource.or.ke/ is down. No money to pay for the domain, A host of contributors & I provide content. Know anyone/corp willing to support it for a paltry 3k/year [ http://pct.co.ke/support/BasicHosting], You ofcourse get our undying gratitude and a link back yo your site/blog. CSR anyone?
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