First post this year?! :-)

[David Kaufman]

Hi FSB'ers, and dementions and dementites...

Long time no post-ey, eh?  The last list post was December 31st afaict.
Could it be?  Has everything that there is to say about free software
business been said prior to 2008?

Okay, well if no one *else* is going to break the ice for 2008...two
things:

Thing One: I'm proud to report that I'm finally, happily, after like ten
years programming perl professionally, employed by (what I might dare to
characterize as) a "Free Software Business".  And not one that I started,
either!  Actually I've been here going on three years, but we finally
launched our website, so everyone have a look-see and gaze into the face of
Free Software Business goodness.

The Erlbaum Group [http://www.erlbaum.net], while perhaps not (yet) a
multibillion dollar multinational mega-corporation, is however a free
software development firm that specializes in building website content
management systems that are tailored to each client's (mostly local
publishing companies) unique businesses rules, information workflow, and
interactivity needs.  We primarily extend the open source Krang CMS system
[http://sf.net/projects.krang] and contribute gobs of code back to the
project.  I'll be fielding questions about the business model specifics
after the dessert...

And Thing B: (not nearly so momentous, but hey -- it's too quiet in here!)

I also just came across this old link while dusting off some very old
bookmarks:

  101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source
  http://www.manageability.org/blog/archive/20030611%23101_ways_to_make_money1

It's a bit dated, admits to be slanted toward Java, and so flippant it's
funny.

I think if this list's subscribers had a Wiki (and, well you know, if
anyone was still *subscribed* to this list, of course) then we could
update, improve and extend this list to one thousand in one ways without
breaking a sweat.

Hope you're all well, and free, and in business, and all that.

-dave, listening for the sound of something more than crickets

[davelab6]

On 18/03/2008, David Kaufman <david@...> wrote:
>
>  I think if this list's subscribers had a Wiki (and, well you know, if
>  anyone was still *subscribed* to this list, of course) then we could
>  update, improve and extend this list to one thousand in one ways without
>  breaking a sweat.

I'd say http://www.robmyers.org/wiki/index.php/How_To_Get_Paid_For_Copyleft_Art
is a start :-)

--
Regards,
Dave