Re:Making Money from Open-Source Software
by em-bee on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:33AM
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this sounds much better than what the article suggests which i almost stopped reading at "making money from commercial licenses".
that model just doesn't work for me because while it may work financially (and i have seen companies being successful with it), it prevents the product from being fully immersed into the Free Software ecosystem.
to sell commercial licenses i need to own 100% of the code, which means i can't easily accept outside contributions, nor can i use GPLd libraries which would conflict a commercial license. i do not want to be limited in my choice of tools to suit a commercial license. that's not what i think a good Free Software project should be like.
your comment therefore feels like a relief. my question is though, how to get the companies interested when the product is not yet proven? how to start, find the first customers? those who will pay enough for support to allow me to finish building the product?
that model just doesn't work for me because while it may work financially (and i have seen companies being successful with it), it prevents the product from being fully immersed into the Free Software ecosystem.
to sell commercial licenses i need to own 100% of the code, which means i can't easily accept outside contributions, nor can i use GPLd libraries which would conflict a commercial license. i do not want to be limited in my choice of tools to suit a commercial license. that's not what i think a good Free Software project should be like.
your comment therefore feels like a relief. my question is though, how to get the companies interested when the product is not yet proven? how to start, find the first customers? those who will pay enough for support to allow me to finish building the product?