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EmmyEms

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How do you make money? Ad-Aware is also free, so what's your business model?

We do offer an enhanced version of Ad-Aware called Ad-Aware Plus, [which costs $15]. But money is not the primary goal and has never been; it's mainly used to pay the server and bandwidth costs. We all have "regular" jobs or are students, and do this in our spare time (although it uses up a lot).

If Lavasoft can do it, so can Gnutella client vendors. With open source you can use sourceforge and other sites to distribute your clients, so there is no bandwidth costs at all.

There is no excuse for a Gnutella client to contain adware/spyware.

From a interview with Nicholas Stark of Ad-Aware
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/26/anti_spyware/index.html
 
You can see how Bill Gates will claw his way all the way down the crapper. Watch as Vinnie does the same. GPL is about to kill microsoft, and he knows it.

"In the text of the license agreement Microsoft mentions two specific patents that relate to the CIFS/SMB protocol. The license grants a royalty free license to these patents, but specifically excludes free software distributed under the GNU General Public License from this royalty free patent license."

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ms_license.html
 
How about all the research and development costs to develop ...

Totally free software
linux - many varieties
X Windows
Free/Open/Net BSD
Solaris
gcc/DJGPP compiler and related tools
Java - Sun, IBM
Perl
PHP
MySQL
Apache
Zope
NoteTab
lame
CDEx
emacs
Ghostview
Pegasus (except to spammers)
GIMP
Blender
PoVRay
Netscape/Mozilla
Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
Encryption for the Masses (E4M) - no longer supported by author
StarOffice
OpenOffice

Free for personal use
BeOS personal
SyGate personal firewall
Zone Alarm
IrfanView
AntiVir
Forte Free Agent

I'm starting to get the idea that many gnutella users are just habitual software pirates, and aren't even aware that there is free software available, which works and does useful things, without having to hax0r or 0wnz anythink!

The above, you will probably be aware, is not a comprehensive list. If you want to get more of an idea of what is available, Simtel has a huge archive, much of it ad-free, but even the programs which have ads must follow a strict set of criteria to help allay user's fears that their privacy may be 'on the line' so to speak.

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There wouldn't be many of the features LimeWire has if it would depend on open source developers to work on it in their spare time. - With six developers, they are working (I guess) about 300 man/hours on LimeWire every week, - you would need at least 20-30 open-source developers to do the same work.

Don't forget that many successful open-source projects have full-time developers working on them, e.g. OpenOffice (sponsored by Sun), Mozilla (by AOL/TW), the Linux Kernel (paid by various Linux distributions, IBM, HP, Sun...).

The GIMP for example is done by open-source developers in their free time, and all they manage is a point release every other year.
 
Open source and trying to make money is stupid!

It is fully legal to take all annoying things out and provide your OWN clean version! You need only one coder for this!!!

So if they want to make money they should not open the source!

Open source is MAINLY developed by private persons! It doesn
 
You missed my point. I wanted to tell you, that open source software as it is today, even debian linux (which is just yet another linux distribution), depends on companies to contribute vital code to open source projects.

Without the companies, that have to make money, of course, there would be a lot less open source software.

There are quite a couple of companies successfully making money with open source software. The difference is, you don't sell the software but services. A service could be selling support or the service of compiling the software, maybe even the service of further development.

If you don't pay for LimeWire, it's your choice, but don't believe you don't get anything for the money you spend.
 
I said its stupid to earn money with "open source", not trying to earn money, because its fully legal to compile the source!

See the Limewire clones!!!




Yes this is my point, Limewire tries to sell the source which everybody can get free! They can
 
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