Funding Linux developers
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| Author | Content |
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| Tim Nov 16, 2005 12:42 PM EDT |
Great business model: Linux developer writes article about great Linux feature. Magazine publishes it. Microsoft buys a get the facts add. Publisher pays Linux developer. Everyone wins! ;^) |
| tadelste Nov 16, 2005 12:45 PM EDT |
ROFL |
| tuxchick Nov 16, 2005 12:49 PM EDT |
I nominate this for Comment of the Day. :) |
| number6x Nov 16, 2005 12:54 PM EDT |
And they keep saying you can't make money off of Open Source. |
| tadelste Nov 16, 2005 1:41 PM EDT |
Still ROFL. |
| pinniped Nov 18, 2005 12:37 AM EDT |
Who can complain about that sort of funding scheme? It is somewhat reminiscent of the marketing scheme of the character "Plastic Tolstoy" in Ben Elton's "This Other Eden". However, we do need to kick up a racket and go on with our MS-bashing in order to sustain this model. Once we sit still and say "we beat 'em" then the ads and the funding stops. I remember a few years ago, LinuxFormat printed an article about why they need to run MS ads in a Linux magazine. I don't understand why people even complained - it's not as if they couldn't just turn the page and ignore the ad. |
| TxtEdMacs Nov 18, 2005 5:13 AM EDT |
pinniped - I think you have confused Linux Format magazine with Linux Magazine. I stopped buying the latter not because of the ads, but they essentially jumped onto a band wagon. Moreover, LM staff particularly early on were clueless: free to them meant no cost and complained in their product reviews when there was a charge. |
| number6x Nov 18, 2005 5:54 AM EDT |
This marketing model is very close to Syscon's model at "LinuxInsider". To make this model work, we need to start a website called something like "MicrosoftInsider", and then write articles that bash Microsoft all day. Google and Mark Shuttleworth will throw billions in advertising money at us each day. Oh, wait. Google and Mr. Shuttleworth would have to switch from 'doing no evil' to 'all evil, all the time'. Nevermind. :) |
| tadelste Nov 18, 2005 8:08 AM EDT |
number6x: I think you should write a business plan for this. I will publish it. Make it serious and it could be the best read article ever published on the Internet. Think: Pulitzer. |
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