Re: Making money from open source
"Matt Asay" <[email protected]>
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Glad you think so. However, as the founder and managing director of the conference, I have to say that the purpose isn't to make a lot of money. (As a full-time employee of Novell, I don't think they'd like that very much, since I'm working on the conference with several people from other companies/academic institutions. :-) Please contact me if you're interested in attending. We're applying selective, generous discounts to members of the community. There is a heavy business focus, but we'd like to make sure the capitalism of the conference doesn't overwhelm the community. This is why we have Larry Lessig, Eben, and others there. (Larry's keynote, in fact, will be a warning cry to the IT vendors not to kill the open source goose that laid the golden egg by overly commercializing it.) Ping me @ masay at osbc2004.com if you're interested in attending, but can't afford the full-freight price. Matt _______________________________ Matt Asay Linux Business Office Open Source Review Board 801.861.4568 (Direct Office) 801.319.5695 (Cell) 801.469.7239 (eFax) IM: mnasay (AOL); mjasay (Yahoo) Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com >>> DV Henkel-Wallace <[email protected]> 03/06/04 10:10 AM >>> Here's some folks with a working business model: http://www.osbc2004.com/ $1,500 to attend a conference on open source. It does have an unusual list of speakers.