Re: [DotGNU]Business plans

[David Sugar]

Some of these ideas I should try for Bayonne :).  We could have very 
slick Bayonne t-shirts :).  Actually, some of these things are done in 
Bayonne already; in partocular commercial support services and custom 
development.  It is a very workable business model, and certainly has 
sustained OST for three years now.  That we can apply some lessons from 
other entities commercially successful with free software to DotGNU is 
certainly worth considering.

David

Norbert Bollow wrote:

> > What kind of business do you foresee?
>
> As soon as we have a good piece of software, there will be quite
> a few opportunities for using it to generate revenue.  This
> includes for example:
>
> * Selling nice boxes which contain DotGNU CD-ROMs
> * Selling commercial support for DotGNU
> * Selling customizations and custom development based on DotGNU
> * Selling T-Shirts with the DotGNU logo (since the logo is
>  licensed under GPL, it will be necessary to give the buyer of
>  a written promise to give them also the image file in Gimp's
>  native format, upon request)
>
> There is no proper "business plan" for any of this yet.  And
> before going too deeply into commercial plans, we need to put
> some structure in place that will ensure that all contributors
> can get fairly for their contributions.  This would be the first
> task of the "business commission" IMO.
>
> Greetings, Norbert.