Go Open - Episode 13

Lead Story: Making money from Open source The most outstanding local example of making money from Open Source Software is undoubtedly the “Mark Shuttleworth Story”, a garage-to-riches tale of hard work, Open Source and business acumen, resulting in the creation of South Africa’s best-known IT multi-millionaire, and Africa’s first astronaut! Another local example of the commercial potential of Open Source is Afribiz, a company that provides network specific services including mail servers, firewalls, print servers, fax servers, file servers, web servers and a host of other server and network related services to businesses. The company’s strategy includes cost-effective, stable and low maintenance products. Big Gun: Robert Young Bob Young is a Co-founder and former Chairman of Red Hat (1993-2000). He describes himself as a ‘Serial entrepreneur’. He’s a graduate of the University of Toronto (1976), and Founder of The Centre for the Public Domain (1999), a non-profit foundation that supports the growth of a healthy and robust public domain of knowledge and the arts. Bob is also CEO and founder of Lulu.com, home of ‘Bob Young’s Store’ and Lulu Enterprises, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lulu.com is a site that allows content creators and owners to bring work directly to market without surrendering control of their intellectual property. Open Source Means Business: Starfish What is hot: Open Source outside the computer