No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by BlueTemplar on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:49AM (#25033430)

The traditional ways to make money from free (libre) software and open source were :

1.) selling physical copies

2.) charging for support

The first one is probably not viable most of the time these days, but I can see how the second one could work : for instance one could modify one's code forge so that you would need to pay to open a ticket, and/or put up an asked sum of money to start working on a ticket (that several people could contribute to).

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by Qwertious on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:37AM (#25035226)

We could still sell software if distros decided to add support for selling freedom-respecting software through the package manager. Some people still do it (see RCU on http://davisr.me , it's a $15 FOSS third-party program for stuff related to the ReMarkable e-ink stylus tablet)

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by cercatrova on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:48AM (#25036682)

Neither option stops Amazon from packaging your code up and selling it as a cloud service.

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