The money just keeps on rolling into Redmond and Microsoft's partners, almost faster than ever before!

Due to the nature of free software, most companies that produce free software do not  make money off of the code itself but rather complementary services, such as support. Canonical has just launched one such service that, in addition to opening some interesting possibilities for the future, could provide a good revenue stream for Canonical.

There are 10 types of software producers in the world. Yes, I know I used this joke before. There are those who produce software for money and those who produce software for free. Then there are the people who use that software.

If you are looking for a way to make money on the Internet and work from home you have found the perfect website to help guide you in the right direction.

The purpose of open-source and the ideal which it follows is not to let people steal eachother's work, but to improve upon previous designs.

SURVEYS that encompass many Web sites cost a lot of money/effort/time to produce and the gain from them is mere unless a particular party gains. It is always very, very important to check where the money comes from. It's valuable to at least understand the business model.

Free is the business plan of the internet age – the challenge is to figure out how to make money from not charging any money. This is the problem that always faced open-source developers.

People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It’s dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free.

For some reason, people still can't seem to get their heads around the idea that you can make money, big money, from FOSS (Free Software/Open Source). It's a pity that more of them couldn't have been in New York City this week for the O'Reilly Money:Tech conference.