…start of rant…

I believe that Marc and I are very good listeners. In fact as good as we are at listening we also suck at listening.

We were once in a meeting which contained way too many silent moments because we were so used to keeping out mouth shut that we never had anything to add.

This post has come about through my thoughts of how open source programs make money. It is a bit of a rant as I am only seeing one side of the coin here, so if you can then please enlighten me.

Yesterday I read a post on 37signals which spoke about how to make money twice. To me the best part of the post was in the first paragraph.

It said: “A good portion of this industry is still trying to figure out how to make money for the first time (hint: charge people).” What I loved about it was simple, “hint: charge people”. Brilliant.