{"id":389,"date":"2017-06-12T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=389"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:58:13","slug":"the-open-source-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"The Open Source Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my third installment on the topic on open source<\/a>, I would like to discuss its business model<\/a> when there is profit involved. Not all projects have a return over investment, which makes many wonder why start an open source<\/a> project in the first place, but you need to be a programmer with the correct mindset in the first place to work with others and renounce to ownership of any work you do — almost a socialist\/anarchist mentality. The latter gives control of the code and the end product to a controlling 501(c) foundation — for example, the Linux Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The projects that do make a profit are usually sponsored and\/or controlled by corporations — for example, Red Hat<\/a>. These corporations make a revenue from training and support — not from the open source<\/a> product itself, which is free. In other words, you can use the product, but you have to pay if you need support — a strong capitalist mentality.<\/p>\n

In both cases, there is an ever-growing number of third parties that provide training, certifications, support, other services and numerous user groups.<\/p>\n

The open source<\/a> community is often very open<\/em> to help others in user groups and forums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my third installment on the topic on open source, I would like to discuss its business model when there is profit involved. Not all projects have a return over investment, which makes many wonder why start an open source project in the first place, but you need to be a programmer with the correct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"send_to_group_blog":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-programming","category-cuny","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}