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Open Source Business perspective

1. Get your name out 2. Use floating resource 3. Streghten your resume 4. Get paid for support 5. Get paid for prioratizing business's priority bugs 6. Provide a pool of experts in the subject area. 7. Part of the community 8. Show off your talent by opening out your source code rather than hiding your bad code in the pretext of various legal protections. Once you have a product, other possibilities include: 1. installation help 2. customization help 3. script, automization 4. higher priority on piad customers bugs 5. programming help in the language/platform of your choice other than the one basically supported 6. debugging on customers OS/site/host 7. porting to customers platform - including custom platform 8. helping customer's development team to use the product properly 8. Custom products based on the core product

posted by Pine Car @ 6:30 PM