Making money with free software
summary
A panel of FOSS4G businesses explains how they monetize open geospatial stacks: Coordinates runs a data platform built on open components and launched cart about four years ago; North Road was commissioned to build a QGIS plugin to connect it to QGIS. Saw positions itself as a YouTube for maps to host crowdsourced maps. Audience polling shows 64% time and 33% money contributions; governments resist small ~$5,000 bug payments; Aboriginal groups use QGIS for sensitive site data and cite data sovereignty when rejecting proprietary offers.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to free software
- 1:09Panelists introduce themselves
- 4:01Audience contributions to open source
- 8:34Open source sustainability and funding
- 14:52Businesses built around open source
- 17:18Government and open source skepticism
- 22:55Sponsoring open source projects
- 26:06Government support for open source
- 31:50Open source licensing choices
- 34:18Demonstrating open source competency
- 38:36Final thoughts and wrap-up
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