Marketing and Outsourcing model of Open Source

It was in the 1960’s when researchers working on Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) concocted the term ‘request for comment’ to develop protocols for telecommunication network. It was from hereafter the developments what occurred lead to the term ‘open source’. It was sometime in 1998 when Netscape in a conference decided to go public with the source code of their application and named that application as open source.

Open source is basically used on a widespread scale merely because of the ease of it redistribution property. Since the open source softwares comes with relaxed license or one can even say no license at all, it can be used to for commercial purposes too. Companies in the present scenario not only develop open source applications but also render services and technical support to organization for the development purposes.

The business model of open source has many more aspects than it was actually intended for. Companies can use open source application, modify it and only go public with the source code while keeping the executable files to themselves which are meant for the services of paying customers. Organizations can decide to provide their upgraded versions of open source softwares to paying customers only. Some organizations accept users to pay for projects which accept donations.

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