Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pjmlp on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:15PM (#17595111)

Harmful is wanting to be paid for their work while expecting others to give their work for free.

It is plain impossible to live from selling desktop software with source code available, without having others in the first week come around and re-bundle it, Sourceforge style.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by mattl on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:29PM (#17595236)

Most of the GNU/Linux desktop stuff is GNOME, and a lot of GNOME developers work at Red Hat, but not exclusively. If you want to work on free software desktop applications, I would consider working at a company like that.

A lot of desktop software is commodity stuff — mail clients, office suites, browsers, photo editing and the like. But there are some areas where we need to be better, such as video editing.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pjmlp on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:39PM (#17595321)

I gave up on that dream long time ago, I rather have paying customers.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by gsich on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:44PM (#17596287)

This is essentially a byproduct of Red Hat selling stuff. Just take Filezilla, people don't donate, so the author used some shady stuff. Or look at gnupg.

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