"According to Mozilla's CEO Mitchell Baker, Firefox is just at the beginning of its life cycle. In this one-on-one interview with APCMag.com, she talks about where Firefox came from and where it's going."
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Member since:2005-07-08
Connecting an audience to content is extremely lucrative. All other operations on content are essentially worthless. KDE might drive revenue by collecting what would amount to bribes to include a particular app on their desktop by default (connecting users with content), but that doesn't seem like something they'd do. Desktop software generally doesn't have the potential to affect the popularity of content.
Today is one of the many days where I've gone down the list of ways to monetize free software, and I'm not going to do it again. I didn't put this particular business model on the list because it won't work for the vast majority of desktop-oriented free software projects. If you're a web service, your options are comparatively limitless, but the only attention-herding application on the desktop is the browser, and I would highly suggest not entering this market.
Member since:2005-10-10
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2005-10-20
The most spectacular thing I liked is that open source application making good money.
$55 Million.
In Mitchell's words
"Mitchell Baker: Yep it's I think unprecedented for an open source project like us."
Hope this encourages numerous other good open source applications like open office, KDE, GIMP etc who are doing good work silently. I just wish that they also become self sufficient and profitable and not depend on community donations.
Firefox has shown us that Open Source is a viable way to go.