Open source business: towards a subscription model?
A couple of weeks ago Stehpen O’Grady posted an insightful article where he suggested the idea that a business model based on subscription to value added services is the way to go in making a really profitable with open source:
Much of the revenue directed open source firms way thus far has been related to their willingness to pick up the phone when things go awry. In that respect, it
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By xmariachi, 12 September 2007 @ 6:26 pm
There was a salesman that often came to my father’s grocery shop.
He used to say: “The same amount of s**t is produced by a cow and by one hundred hummingbirds. But what if the cow dies.”
By Parul Bindra, 2 November 2007 @ 2:36 pm
http://www.bhopu.com/2007/10/27/Perpetual-Web-Services-and-Monthly-Subscription-models