Other than the persistent quest for how to make money by giving your work away --- another inherent contradiction of open source is the idea that a "license" will protect your work.
A license isn't worth much unless you have the ability to defend it. And defending it also requires --- money.
Recently, I've been trying to figure out how to finance software and hardware that's actually useful to everyday people. The sentiment clearly resonated with HN:
but when I tried asking around how I could finance a useful OS app, I didn't get much of an answer. That's why I spent some days on research to understand how the FOSS projects that I enjoy and rely on are financing their operations. And how well that appears to work (or not).
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Other than the persistent quest for how to make money by giving your work away --- another inherent contradiction of open source is the idea that a "license" will protect your work.
A license isn't worth much unless you have the ability to defend it. And defending it also requires --- money.
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Recently, I've been trying to figure out how to finance software and hardware that's actually useful to everyday people. The sentiment clearly resonated with HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713454
but when I tried asking around how I could finance a useful OS app, I didn't get much of an answer. That's why I spent some days on research to understand how the FOSS projects that I enjoy and rely on are financing their operations. And how well that appears to work (or not).