Go Open - Episode 13

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Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. The creators of 'Go Open' have very kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license.

[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.

Open Source Means Business: Starfish A local technology company, Starfish Mobile Technologies, focuses its energies on cell-phones, creating innovative SMS campaigns in the field of Permission Marketing. And they’ve done it with the indispensable help of Open Source. Marc Chase spoke to Starfish’s Marketing Director, Wayne Nelson-Esch, and David Zarraga, of Xurpass, and Head of Operations, Starfish Mobile.

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.

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