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Big questions: Who pays for credit processing, auditing etc.? One platform or many? Are the managing people allowed to make a profit? How do you ensure that imp

Big questions: Who pays for credit processing, auditing etc.? One platform or many? Are the managing people allowed to make a profit? How do you ensure that important but boring projects get money as well? See the ubuntu software store, elementary OS, patreon/liberapay, .... Edit: Also "commercial" is the wrong word. You mean proprietary. You are very much encouraged to sell free software https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

ironmagma 6y ago
If you sell the software, you could in theory form a team with hired individuals, etc. It’s not proprietary software that has some advantage; the act of keeping the source proprietary does nothing to help with logistics of development, that’s what charging money does. As for the questions, I don’t have the solution, I am limited to knowing what the problems are unfortunately.