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I know this feeling, seeing people pay for your free software! It's very rewarding, and also a sign that some people got huge value from your hard work. Even
by 255kb 6y ago
I know this feeling, seeing people pay for your free software!
It's very rewarding, and also a sign that some people got huge value from your hard work.
Even if it's symbolic, or just enough to cover the server costs, it's what motivates me to continue.
Still, I wish more companies would donate to support the massive amount of open-source software and libraries we all use every day. I understand that making a company pay for something free is a challenge. But come on, they can pay vast amount of money for getting support for open-source softwares, support they will probably never use... :)
(Project on which I received donation: https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon)
- bachmeier 6y ago> I understand that making a company pay for something free is a challenge. I don't know how many times I've heard variants of this. "You can't monetize open source because companies won't pay for it." It's not that hard to get them to support the project if you sell something that's not available for free. It could be as simple as selling a special version of the documentation for $25. That's obviously not at the same level as dropping a $5000 donation, but it's more than zero, and it's a heck of a lot easier for an employee to ask them to pay $25 for a tool they need to do their work than to ask them to donate $5000.
- larrik 6y agoHonestly, selling the company the right to yell at you and a promise to not disappear and take the software with you is probably enough for some of them...
- 255kb 6y agoI totally agree. It's probably easier to make a company pay by offering support, training, etc. It's the donation schema that is complicated for them.