How can I monetise an open source project?
How can I monetise an open source project?
in my ass
Make it useless without a backend that demands subscriptions made on # of requests
The most profitable linux distros like fedora, ubuntu and suse make most of their money from "professional" 24/7 tech support subscriptions
source is available, but if you want binaries or support then it's paid
even AGPL allows you to do that, just make sure to share the source.
filters out people who can't into compiling
You can't, freetards want everything for free and are stingy as fuck
Unironically great thread, I didn't know this.
Based licence
beg
The problem with open sources is you can't hide from the patent kikes.
Do people generally donate to stuff they use?
lmao
Yes if:
Age above 30
Good income (not poor)
Has an interesting in IT (not shiny bling)
This means you will get donations but very few.
just sell it on steam faggot
Repackage and sell as your program, I do thatwith Floreant POS
Honestly i find this a fair compromise. You're charging for the service of setting up the environment and sparing the resources to build the software.
Huh? It's open sores because everybody knew they couldn't make any money off it.
that's what it really is, you as client pay for the machinery needed to build the software and the time spent doing support for it, while the source is still available there to your hacking pleasure but without real support
The Krita devs did this with the Microsoft Store builds, but the jews outlawed it, i feel a bit bad for them now. Fucking easy to just demand key based auth from the first party maintainers to clear out totally unrelated Big Sirfuls reselling free software builds with added analytics.
>Big Sirfuls reselling free software builds with added analytics.
aren't those builds almost every time gpl violation since if those builds even link to some source code it just links to vanilla program source code instead of the modified one
take your software and offer cloud services for a premium
take your software and add premium features to a private branch which only allows access after payment
It is, but MS is a lazy org, outright ban is easier.