Business model for Open Source - advice wanted

[Ray Smith]

graham__fawcett at hotmail.com (Graham Fawcett) wrote in message news:<e9570f37.0307101010.4e5c21ea at posting.google.com>...
> Without regard to the specifics of your question: if you haven't done
> so already, I'd recommend reading Eric Raymond's essay "The Magic
> Cauldron."
> 
> Summary: "This paper analyzes the economics of open-source software.
> It includes some explosion of common myths about software production
> economics, a game-theoretical account of why open-source cooperation
> is stable, and a taxonomy of open-source business models."
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/

and also "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"

in particular the "Cygnus" and "Open Source as a Business Strategy" chapters.

Online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html

Ray Smith