LinuxPlanet: LinuxBiz: A Daring Rescue, and Plans, Finally, to Make Money

“Welcome to a new feature of Linux Planet, where every
other week we’ll focus on things related to the business aspects of
Linux. But, we hope, this feature will be different from most Linux
business coverage, which is either rewritten PR pieces or articles
bemoaning the presence of filthy lucre in our pristine little
community. There is much to talk about, and there are serious
questions to be asked. We hope to talk about those things and ask
those questions. Many involved in both the development and the use
of Linux probably are only peripherally concerned about these
things, but there are others, people who have to decide whether to
make the commitment to move their businesses to Linux or to provide
investment capital to Linux companies, to whom good information is
a valuable tool. They need to know that Linux isn’t some flaky
operating system put together by people who will move on to other
things as soon as their interest wanes. They need to know that
moving to Linux, or investing in the ideas of Linux programmers, is
not a dead end — or in cases where it might be, that it might be.

And the business aspects of Linux are all over, sometimes taking
surprising turns. This was the week of the Linux World Conference
and Expo in San Francisco, but it was also the week of some
surprising developments. Because many Linux business people were in
San Francisco and difficult to pin down for deep interviews, we
will begin with a look at recent Linux business developments, each
of which is the kind of thing to which an entire edition of
LinuxBiz will be devoted.”

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