Business

Business means being busy sometimes with the connotion of making money. If you need to know more precisely you might want to check the Wikipedia article on Business and please always consider viewing it from several perspectives to thoroughly understand.

OSGeo and Business

OSGeo is not a business club. Instead it aims at being a not-for-profit[1] organization. Nonethesless a lot of the software, training and geospatial data is produced, maintained and enhanced by commercial enterprises. Services are offered around Free Software and Open Source for pay, which again is a commercial activity.

[1] ...which is a stupid conflict in English legal talk because obviouly everybody makes a profit from OSGeo's existence.