“Software industry dignitaries at the EclipseCon 2005 conference
here Tuesday pondered a burning question: How do you make money in
open source software when the software is free?“The selling of support and services were two options noted, but
panelist Mitchell Kertzman, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture
Partners, said a similar question about how to make money was
raised when the computing paradigm shifted to the PC more than 20
years ago…”