From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T05:23:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:21:52PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Michael Hollins wrote:
> > Alex Young wrote:
> >> Then you've got software that's so important that the body behind it
> >> can survive on donations (Mozilla and Apache, to the best of my
> >> knowledge, work this way).
> > 
> > I don't know about Apache, but I think you'll find that most of
> > Mozilla's income comes from referral fees from Google. Apparently it's
> > on the order of many tens of millions each year.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > mick
> OK ... where does *Google's* money come from? The searches are free, and
> most of their other "products" are as well.

Advertising revenue, I believe . . . which leads to another revenue
stream available to open source software.  In fact, that provides a
business model (almost?) unique to open source software, since making
money entirely off advertising while giving away downloadable software is
a lot more viable as a business model with open source software than with
closed source software.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."