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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by cal85 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:43AM (#32580111)
Software that is free for “non-commercial” use doesn’t really get anywhere. It’s a naive proposition. It is not simple drawing the line between non-commercial and commercial activities. Things that are non-commercial can easily slip into commercial by some definition, and then you’d suddenly be in breach of contract, no one wants to take that risk. This is why people use permissive licences if they want their OSS to be used.
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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by rthomas6 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:12AM (#32580488)
>Things that are non-commercial can easily slip into commercial by some definition, and then you’d suddenly be in breach of contract, no one wants to take that risk.

That's part of why it works. If you start making money, you have to pay to use the software you've already designed your product around.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by jahewson on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:18PM (#32581578)
“Making money” is not a workable definition. What if my product is free but my company makes money off support? What if it’s freemium but I have not added a paid tier yet? What if my product looses money? What if my software is free but I use it to promote my personal brand and pick up consulting work?

I’d say that all of those scenarios are commercial.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by joemazerino on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:56AM (#32581152)
How do you enforce payment? Chasing vendors around? Adding analytics to your platform to tattle-tale?
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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by cal85 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:44AM (#32591190)
> That's part of why it works.

Where does it work? It seems almost non-existent to me. Maybe we are looking at different areas of the market though.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:55PM (#32583216)
> If you start making money

Is that Net or Gross?

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