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How Metafizzy makes money #15

Open ianstormtaylor opened 8 years ago

ianstormtaylor commented 8 years ago

Might not be a specific project, but would love to read as many articles as you can stomach writing about how you've managed to turn Metafizzy into a self-sustaining thing. I like the articles about what makes good docs, how the prototypes evolved, etc. But I'd also love to read about the behind-the-scenes finance and business aspects too :) just a thought!

desandro commented 8 years ago

Great suggestion. I haven't been as forth-coming with the business side of things as the journey so far hasn't been as well orchestrated as the development side of things. But Metafizzy's old enough that it has some credence. I'll keep this in mind for the next round of blog posts.

ianstormtaylor commented 8 years ago

Awesome, thanks!

corysimmons commented 8 years ago

:+1: Please teach me how to make money developing open source.

clmcgrath commented 8 years ago

well there is a license for commercial projects... a lot of open source projects make their money this way

corysimmons commented 8 years ago

@clmcgrath I suppose. TBH I think my only question is how do they enforce it? What's the stop someone from just using their publicly available code on whatever they want?

jimmyadaro commented 7 years ago

@corysimmons Maybe some kind of license breach, but not too much beyond that. Anyone can use any of your (open-sourced or not) code and you may not be aware. Pay the commercial license is like an act of respect to the devs.

corysimmons commented 7 years ago

I'm just gonna Fair license everything from now on. Done working for free. If it seems good, make a docs/page for it explaining pricing.