By: Daria X

Daria X — Tue, 23 May 2017 06:18:13 +0000

To be honest you’ve suggested such a risky method. If you charge for your project when nobody knows him, you just loose your audience. Who cares about unknown paid soft?
And if you will charge after promotion, you can also annoy your users – someone’s got your services for free and someone – for money.
Maybe it’s easier use standart methods of monetization? All the more there are plenty of them
https://rubygarage.org/blog/how-make-money-with-open-source-projects
– SAAS
– Support
– Paid license etc..

By: Eddie O'Connor

Eddie O'Connor — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 06:15:10 +0000

There is also brand loyalty. I use Fedora Linux since I fist entered the world of open source in 2003, and while I’m not a mega-corporation, nor do I have tons of cash at my disposal, I sometimes donate to certain distros that I feel can use my donation to improve their product. In this way I “give back” to the open source community that has “given” me a free operating system that trumps Windows and is relatively a bit safer. If the folks who DID have large sums of money donated just a little bit?…a lot of distros and open source projects wouldn’t have failed, or shut down. If ever I were to hit the PowerBall lottery, I’d be sure to donate large sums to the open source community. Just like you wouldn’t expect a top billing musical artist to perform for free, or to have the world’s beat steak while not paying a dime, then there’s no reason to assume that the folks who work on the various open source projects don’t have bills, wives, children, car notes, insurance premiums, mortgage payments etc. The more people who can give what they can spare, the better the development of the software, which in turn leads to better operating systems and applications that benefit us…the end user.

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