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Re: Bruce Perens on the lack of successful Linux companies

Oui, cet article est tres interessant.

- Vendre Linux, comme c'est GPL, signifie que n'importe qui peut
revendre ton produit gratuitement
- Vendre du service sur Linux c'est pas facile, car, a moins d'avoir des
gros clients, et d'offrir un service unique, la plupart des gens qui
utilisent Linux ont besoin de tres peu de service, puisqu'une fois que
c'est installe, c'est stable et les clients n'ont plus besoin de toi.
- Vendre du logiciel proprietaire, c'est un modele risque, car ca ouvre
la controverse (hein Gilles? ;-)

Alors on fait quoi?

Jean-Michel

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 00:05, GP wrote:
> «You also commented about the lack of successful Linux companies. This is 
> not due to the community treatment of Linux businesses, but the fact that 
> Open Source is not a business and should not be treated as one. It's
> ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­
> successful when operated as a cost-center, in businesses that make their 
> money some other way. The most successful ones use the software they 
> develop for some business purpose: for example, Apache developers use the 
> software to implement web sites for their business, IBM and HP make money 
> by selling hardware that runs with Linux, not by selling Linux. 
> 
> Eric Raymond and others theorized that support would be a good way to fund 
> Open Source, but the support model has under-performed so far, because the 
> early adopters are too self-supporting. Sales of proprietary software to 
> support the Open Source development are also underperforming, as Linux 
> customers, even within the Fortune 500, have become wary of dependence on 
> non-Open-Source. 
> 
> Thus, no Linux distribution has been more than marginally profitable so 
> far. My surmise is that over the long term a non-profit like Debian 
> supported by hardware manufacturers and other businesses will work best. 
> But I'd be delighted to see you prove me wrong.»
> 
> P'tit comqiue, va!
> 
> http://lwn.net/daily/perens-robertson.php3
> 
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