SourceForge adopts eBay-like sales model for open-source software

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Dec 7, 2007 8:56 AM EDT
Linux Watch; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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One question that people who don't know how open-source businesses work is: "How do you make money from open-source software?" SourceForge.net has a new answer to that question: sell services and support to customers using an eBay-like market. SourceForge.net, with millions of monthly visitors, is already one of the world's largest Web sites for open-source development and distribution. What it didn't have, though, was any way for its uses to cash in on their open-source projects. On Dec. 6, that changed forever. Today, SourceForge launched an online marketplace for technology professionals to buy and sell service and support for open-source software.

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