The way to get money from libre software is to sell support services.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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That, and sponsoring, are the current and main avenues. Yet, it's been shown they're not enough. Hence, the discussion...
I think that many developers are poor at or unwilling to work on marketing efforts or creating independent business relationships, so getting hired by a company like RedHat, Microsoft, etc. to work on a project is the way they sell their services.
If you impose limitations, it’s, by definition, not free software anymore.
All licenses impose limitations of some kind. Especially the GPL.
Excellent article.