If you’ve spent any time at all in the open source business, you’ve no doubt heard this question as many times as I have: “So, how do you make money from free software?”

I’m on a panel next week at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention called “Emerging Open Source Business Strategies” with Matt Asay of Novell, Dave Dargo of Oracle, and Tim O’Reilly in which we’ll be discussing this and other open-source-as-business-opportunity topics.

So, if you’ve ever asked (or been asked) the question above and will be at OSCON next week, come by Salon I at 5:15pm on Thursday, July 10. It should be a very interesting discussion.