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Re:A handy guide to financial support for open source by zaarn on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:44AM (#15786079)
That approach only really works if you have sufficient adoption in enterprise/commercial.

Doesn't really work if you target the hobbyist market, which will simply not bother with the commercial license.

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Re:A handy guide to financial support for open source by crdoconnor on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:52AM (#15786395)
>Doesn't really work if you target the hobbyist market

The hobbyist market isn't typically a great place to make money from anyway.

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Re:A handy guide to financial support for open source by zaarn on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:56AM (#15786417)
Yes. But making any money is preferable to making no money from your OSS project, no?
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Re:A handy guide to financial support for open source by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:57AM (#15786916)
It really depends. Sometimes the money is not compensated by the support "fun".
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Re:A handy guide to financial support for open source by zaarn on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:05AM (#15786958)
There is no support "fun", atleast not from my side. I do not feel like anyone is entitled to me supporting the application unless I am specifically paid for that. If I see such comments they will get removed and the offender banned very quickly.
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Re:A handy guide to financial support for open source by zokeia on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:29PM (#15789763)
The hobbyist market doesn't need a proprietary exception.
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