Discussion on business of free software products - through E-Jikei Network Project

Author

Yoshiura, Noriaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Saitama Univ., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

8-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

22

Abstract

Software engineering is very different from the other fields of engineering. One of the difference points is that the authors of software products make software products public on the Internet so that anyone can use them without charge. Such software products are called free software or open source software. However, free software or open source software cannot make money and it is not software business aside from that it is good or bad. This paper discusses how to make business for software products which are made by individuals or small organizations. This discuss shows some reasons why such software products cannot be commercial software products which can make money.

Keywords

organisational aspects; public domain software; software development management; software engineering; E-Jikei network project; business discussion; free software products; open source software; organizations; software engineering; software products authors; Cameras; Companies; Open source software; Patents; Security; business model; free software; open source software; patent; software business;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), 2011 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bandung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1167-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICI-BME.2011.6108582

Filename

6108582