It is often confusing for people to learn that an open source company may give its products away for free or for a minimal cost. While it is true that an open source business may not make money directly from its prod... Read More
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Horsfall Multimedia owns and manages companies that specialise in engaging social communities through online communications. We operate a strict open source business model that benefits our clients, their communities and the growth of our own business. Open source companies can generate stable and scalable revenue streams. In actuality, in the modern web technology market, it is the open source company that has the greatest long-term strategic advantage. This is demonstrated by companies such as LINUX, Apache, Netscape, and a host of web-specific technologies such as Java, Perl, TCL. The open source business model relies on shifting the commercial value away from the actual products and generating revenue from the 'Product Halo', or ancillary services like systems integration, support, tutorials and documentation. |



