Examples of libre software that pay developers salaries

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http://primarypad.com funds Etherpad developement by offering a paid subscription to schools

https://guardianproject.info/home/partners/ android privacy tools. Sponsored by human rights foundations

http://synergy-project.org/pricing offers GPL binaries for a fee

http://ardour.org/download.html offers GPL binaries for a fee

https://payments.discourse.org/buy/ offers GPL source as a hosted web app service

http://jsbin.com/ offers MIT source as a hosted web app service

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http://bizlegfoss-ritigm.rhcloud.com/static/books/seven_open_source_business_strategies.pdf

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On why dealing with money advances the movement, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikaelcho/the-unsplash-book/description says,

Comedian Louis C. K. inspired me when he said:

“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest.”

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http://synergy-project.org/pricing

http://ardour.org/download.html

https://payments.discourse.org/buy/

http://jsbin.com/

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https://github.com/HospitalRun (docs)

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Sustainable libre business models:

• Subscriptions like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Network#PlayStation_Plus
• patreon

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http://www.copyleftsolutions.com says it employs 60 people

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http://blog.ieeesoftware.org/2016/04/dissecting-myth-that-open-source.html is a related takedown

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https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/05/11/mozilla-open-source-support-moss-now-open-to-all-projects/ is a 1.25M$ fund

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http://www.tryton.org/services.html

https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2013/05/01/geary-crowdfunding-what-went-wrong/ is a case study in how crowd funding may not work

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http://web.archive.org/web/20100608095635/http://nmag.soton.ac.uk/mollison/html/15-millionaires.html

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https://twitter.com/HuBoard/status/756213127998386176?cn=cmVwbHk%3D&refsrc=email

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http://pencil.evolus.vn/Licensing.html

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https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand and https://github.com/ralphtheninja/open-funding list many

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http://fundingoss.com/

(no 2018-09-30 I set up a mirror at https://davelab6.github.io/fundingoss/ )

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All the freedom and power of open source Grafana, backed by the support and advice of the core team that built it.

• https://grafana.net/support/plans

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Holy shit, https://buffer.com/transparency says that now all their code is libre on Github. But I'm not sure if this is totally true... :)

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http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html is a great post mortem on a failed free software company

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https://www.indexventures.com/blog/elastic-the-evolution-of-open-source

[signalwerk]

@davelab6 do you have a good idea how to bring this awesome collection somehow in a good form? It's always hard to keep link-lists updated. Plus I saw we already lost some content because it's offline now. I tried to do in my attempt archive.org links for static content.

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Sadly, not really... eventually I will convert my MATD Dissertation into a real book that is up to date. But I am too busy making things happen :)

Having experienced losing important web texts when wanting to go back to them years later, I have kept a huge private archive of all web pages which I enjoy reading for the last ~10 years. Sadly its not possible for me to publish, but it means when I do make that book, I will be able to provide a very large appendix of all referenced material in full :) Maybe I would have to host it in Moldova though, lol

[signalwerk]

Oh! Thats good. At least you still have the content. I'm looking forward to that book! would love to see an updated/extended version of your work!

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Let's chat at lgm :)