We have made progress.
Jacqui Caren wrote:
> John Cooper wrote:
>> If it was so easy we would all be a millionaires by now. Getting the
>> business model right is still difficult for FLOSS projects, but some are
>> making good money and are attracting investors.
This month I am working towards promising a 2-way (skills/experience <->
DIASER) B2B partnership that will provide Interlinux Ltd with core business
and solve some of the DIASER early deployment and testing trust challenges. I
can't release more details than that at the moment. For those that are
interested Interlinux Ltd twitter is the place to view progress, I only tend
to twitter significant events. ETA for this is early September, perhaps a
little sooner.
http://twitter.com/interlinux
This thread (or crowdsourcing) would have helped.
> It's initial development was funded by my employer and it was developed by
> our then tech director. My boss would not say this himself but my gut feel is
> that FLOSSing this code base ended up costing the company maybe a half mill
> or so.
Interlinux has been FLOSS from the start, FLOSS is the process:)
> Quite simply there is a cost involved when you give software away - and some
> of that cost is often unplanned.
That is often true for any venture, fortunately I have been lucky to have the
right sort of people advise so far. I should say, the unplanned costs I have
faced last month are also partially a result of two consecutive family health
emergencies. We have been so incredibly fortunate in both cases that speedy
recovery occurred.
-- Damian
--
http://interlinux.co.uk - Interlinux Services
DIASER RoadMap
http://bit.ly/1Vtdp5
--
This message has been scanned by MailScanner.
