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If you are not comfortable closing the source code then don't. Leave it open, publish only the master branch, sell the binaries. You will be charging for the i
by alexkay 17y ago
If you are not comfortable closing the source code then don't. Leave it open, publish only the master branch, sell the binaries.
You will be charging for the installers and branch management / stabilisation.
Those who want your software for free will be able to build it. Some will probably publish their own binaries, but I bet they won't maintain them. In the best case they will just build off the master branch from time to time.
Many people want software to just work and are ready to pay for the convenience.
- dinkumthinkum 17y agoI think this is worth a shot. He could sell the binaries and support. Additionally, he could actually market it and use various sales techniques. Perhaps he could bundle it with some other third party service and say you get 10% off on said service with a purchase or whatever. There are also other techniques those better at this sort of thing could think of. It's worth a shot. The alternative is not to try and not making any money off the venture.
- yesimahuman 17y agoAn example of someone building and maintaining free binaries for a paid binary was Xchat-2 for windows. It seems officially they stopped charging for the windows binaries, but when they did, someone was maintaining free builds that ranked second to the Xchat page on google. Not that they were banking on people paying for windows builds though. So it may or may not work out how you hope.