How to Live Giving Away Your Software: Business and Free Software
summary
An overview of business models for open source software: explains that open source is a distribution model (not inherently a business model) and surveys the main commercial approaches used over time. Describes current challenges for monetizing open source so attendees can decide whether to release their software as open source and whether they can make money doing so.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:34Making money selling free software?
- 6:46Licenses: Viral vs Liberal
- 8:50Free software licenses
- 17:04Main free software business models
- 18:22Free software is NOT a business model but a distribution model
- 19:16The license conditions the business model
- 21:40Protection mechanisms
- 24:33Failure case: RethinkDB
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