How can it work to have software which has its source open and free for everyone to see and still make money with it?

In this podcast:

• Jeena
• Jeremiah C. Foster

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Background

**** Where are you from?

**** Why Sweden?

**** What did you do before?

**** How did you get into Free and Open Source software?

**** Are you a progpammer?

*** Free software

**** Difference between Free and Open Source software

**** GPL

***** Tivoization

***** LGPL

**** MIT/BSD

***** more/less free than GPL?

**** Legal actions, who can sue?

*** How to make money?

**** Wikipedia

3.1 Dual-licensing

3.2 Selling professional services

3.3 Selling of branded merchandise

3.4 Selling of certificates and trademark use

3.5 Selling software as a service

3.6 Partnership with funding organizations

3.7 Voluntary donations

3.8 Bounty driven development

3.9 Pre-order/crowdfunding/reverse-bounty model

3.10 Advertising-supported software

3.11 Selling of optional proprietary extensions

3.12 Selling of required proprietary parts of a software product

3.13 Re-licensing under a proprietary license

3.14 Obfuscation of source code

3.15 Delayed open-sourcing

**** Clynx story

***** can't sell services or hardware

***** wants to make money with enduser desktop/mobile apps