{"id":144,"date":"2006-03-09T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2006-03-09T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T18:35:02","slug":"that-whole-freedom-thing-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/that-whole-freedom-thing-pays\/","title":{"rendered":"That whole &quot;Freedom&quot; thing pays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the news (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacanis.com\/2006\/03\/06\/firefox-mozilla-corporation-mozilla-foundation-made-72m-last\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/technology\/Mozilla_made_$72_million_from_Firefox\">here<\/a>) that Mozilla banked 72m USD, Christopher Blizzard responds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.0xdeadbeef.com\/weblog\/?p=182\">that it&#8217;s not accurate, but not that far off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I say&#8230; <b>good for them<\/b>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Even Matt Asay (proponent of <a href=\"http:\/\/asay.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/john-roberts-osbc-keynote-commercial.html\">&#8216;fringe, on the cusp open source business models&#8217;<\/a>) blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/asay.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/news-free-lovin-firefox-making-serious.html\">Interesting, the return that freedom can bring.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To put that in perspective, I <i>bet<\/i>  that surpasses the annual revenue for JBoss, MySql, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Zimbra, Suse Linux revenues etc.  The only open source play I don&#8217;t think it tops is Red Hat.  I&#8217;d love comments on this if you think my guesses are incorrect (all private companies so no way to know for sure).<\/p>\n<p>I think my good friend Russ at Nanoblog might be on to something&#8230; The potential is the <a href=\"http:\/\/nanoblog.typepad.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/if_open_source_.html\">Crop NOT the Carrot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the news (here, here) that Mozilla banked 72m USD, Christopher Blizzard responds that it&#8217;s not accurate, but not that far off. I say&#8230; good for them&#8230; Even Matt Asay (proponent of &#8216;fringe, on the cusp open source business models&#8217;) blogs Interesting, the return that freedom can bring.. To put that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}