Posts Tagged ‘Business’

Is it Legal to Open a Small Business to Setup Linux (Ubuntu) Desktops/Create Websites?

Since Ubuntu and other Linux Distros are free to download and distribute. Would it be illegal for me to have a Small Business of my own that would charge individuals/small-businesses to Install and Setup Linux desktops. I wasn’t sure how that GPL license worked. I figured I would be charging individuals for setting up Linux Desktops on their machines or small business/offices and training/teaching them on the various applications they could install on their own.

Also, would it be illegal to create websites using Apache, Tomcat and other Open Source tools and then sell those sites.

I figured many people are turned off by learning or installing something other than Windows desktops on their pcs, just because it is different.

If this cannot be done under the GPL license, then could someone tell me how I could go about starting my own small business to legally Setup/Install Linux distributions.

Thanks,

Former MySQL CEO Mickos Says Open Source Needs More Money Flow

While commercial open source projects have been picking up steam in recent years, as have mergers and acquisitions surrounding them, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is convinced that more companies need to be making money from open source.

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Former MySQL CEO Mickos Says Open Source Needs More Money Flow

MySQL Veteran Marten Mickos Joins Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems, the open souce cloud computing company that we’ve covered numerous times , has announced that former MySQL chief Marten Mickos is its new CEO. Some initial details on the deal appeared in The New York Times on Friday

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MySQL Veteran Marten Mickos Joins Eucalyptus Systems

Ryan Szrama, From The Commerce Guys, On Drupal-Based E-Commerce

The annual DrupalCon conference is coming up, April 19th to 21st at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.  Drupal, of course, is the increasingly popular open source content management system founded by Dries Buytaert, and OStatic itself runs on the platform.

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Ryan Szrama, From The Commerce Guys, On Drupal-Based E-Commerce

A Look at LiMo: Interview with David "Lefty" Schlesinger

Before there was Android or MeeGo, there was the LiMo Foundation . Founded in January 2007, the foundation was established to provide a Linux-based platform for mobile devices

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A Look at LiMo: Interview with David "Lefty" Schlesinger