Can open source make enough money to innovate?

Posted by Martin Koser on 21. June 2005; This entry is filed under Business Models et al., English posts, Innovation et al., Strategic Thinking.
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An update to my posts on McVoy and the Mambo OS business model … noticed an interesting post that discusses the business model question again, this time citing WordPress …

When you give software away, how do you make enough money to fund the laborious process of writing innovative new software? There are four answers to that question.

namely

    web services
    providing support
    IT services, books, training and certification
    add-ons and plugins to open source products

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