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Red Hat, Canonical, Docker, Suse, and many others give software away for free, and make money from that same software.
by pixelbath 7y ago
Red Hat, Canonical, Docker, Suse, and many others give software away for free, and make money from that same software.
- slang800 7y agoThey do that by selling support, or additional non-free features bundled into an "enterprise edition" (at least in the case of Docker). I don't think that's something Feross or other open source maintainers are interested in doing.
- pixelbath 7y agoFair point, but it's inaccurate to say we can't make money off software we give away for free.
- slang800 7y agoI'm not saying that we are literally unable to make money off of free software. We can and donations / advertising / GPL license exemptions / crowd-funding all work to some degree. My point was that even though the "don't give it away for free" model works, we should still try to improve the profitability of funding models where we can give software away for free.
- miguelmota 7y agoAll those companies offer enterprise editions and service-based support; what does standardjs offer that's worth paying for?