Re: [LIG] Open Source Community Hall of shame?
VaibhaV Sharma <vaibhav-Eu1RwsQd+Wna6/ykmkUfTgC/[email protected]>
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On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:14 AM, VaibhaV Sharma wrote: > Why call it a community site to start with and then convert it to > an online store and still call it a community website? Who gets the > profit? > > Hosting is cheap these days. You get a decent hosting account for > $30 per year. Selling that hardware gets the company much more than > that. And that hardware is not manufactured by the company. They just buy it from the US and sell it in India (with appropriate taxes, profit etc.). -- VaibhaV http://vsharma.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642