Now, let's quickly understand the open source business model, so you may have seen a lot of companies
providing you free software and you might be using all those free tools, all software, by doing your
most important stuff for which you have to pay other companies.
But you are not doing that because now you're getting everything for free.
But have you asked yourself that how these companies are able to give their software for free and you
can also call all these software as open source software.
So how these companies really makes money and let's see that how open source business model really works.
So now let's quickly understand the open source business model.
But before that, let's understand what exactly is open source.
Now, open source is a software which have source code that can be inspect, modify and inspire anyone,
which means that all of these source code of these open source software are available to anyone anyone
can modify.
You can do change, men can inspect, it can insensate.
They're free to do anything that they want.
So now let's understand how we use a lot of open source software on a day to day basis.
And you might be wondering that I'm using the software for free, but how exactly is this software making
money and why this software is making a lot of task easier for me so that I do not have to pay to those
expensive software.
So now let's quickly understand the business model of all these open source software.
But before that, let's understand what exactly is open source.
Now, let's see couple of open source examples.
We have Android now.
Android is the open source operating system, which means any company can use Android in their smartphone,
in their other devices.
And it's open source Google is not charging for using the Android operating system, which means Android
is fully open source.
Google is not charging you anything, any royalty for using their operating system in your smartphone
or maybe in your other smart device.
Then we have our programming for those who do not understand or who haven't used our programming in
their career.
Basically our programming is a tool or a language used for people who deals with analytics.
Then you have Java and there's nothing more to explain about Java.
We all know the importance of Java and then you have Mozilla Firefox, then you have Linux and then
you have Ubuntu.
So all these operating system, software, source code programming languages, all these things are
open source, which means that all these tools, OS or programming languages can be inspect, modify
or enhanced by anyone.
And I mean, they are very helpful for a lot of people.
So let's quickly see how these open source company's software or programming languages actually makes
money so fast.
We have the primary open source product, which is really helpful, used by a lot of people.
But on the top of that open source code, product, operating system or anything, you also have something
called proprietary brand.
Now, on the top of open source, you have something called proprietary brand.
Now, what exactly this means?
Now we all know that Firefox or Mozilla Firefox is an open source browser.
You can inspect, you can modify, you can do anything you want with this browser.
But in twenty eighteen, Google paid almost four to five million dollars to Mozilla for having Google
as their default search engine.
Now you can clearly see that how Mozilla Firefox is raising their platform power or the network effect.
And they also have the search engine as a proprietary brand.
So that's how all these open source products are making money.
Now, let's quickly take one more example so we all know Java is free for everyone.
But Java also have their commercial product, which is used by all big enterprises.
Then you also have Android and Google.
So obviously Google is bundling up different services with Android.
So if you buy an Android device, you always have Google search, YouTube, Google, eBay, maybe Google,
Caliendo, Google meet.
So all these services are coming with Android smartphone by default, no matter for which company Android
devices are.
So that's how companies are having a proprietary brand on the top of their core product.