<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carlo Daffara</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Economic Free Software Perspectives</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/277</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&quot;How do you make money with free software?&quot; was a very common question just a few years ago. Today, that question has evolved into &quot;What are successful business strategies that can be implemented on top of free software?&quot; To properly answer this question, it is important to distinguish between the legal, procedural and business model aspects of free/libre and open source software, and how those aspects interact. For example, the licensing aspect influences the development strategy, the kind of development community that can be created around a project, and the potential business models that can provide a monetization strategy for a company that is interested in adopting an open source project as part of the internal company strategy.

This article provides the most recent results from the FLOSSMETRICS project and its recent survey of the business model of more than 200 open source companies. 
 </style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">August 2009</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Articles</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conecta
Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the European Working group on libre software, chairs several other working groups like the open source middleware group of the IEEE technical committee on scalable computing and the Internet Society working group on public software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to Unesco on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of OSS-based business models. </style></custom1></record></records></xml>