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The Money In Open-Source Software | TechCrunch

It’s no secret that open-source technology -- once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters -- has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are not financially healthy.

FOSS funding, co-operation, and the Digital Life Collective

Free open-source software (FOSS) is the bedrock of our digital world. This is a story about getting funding for FOSS engineering…

Freemium the Registry

Laurie Voss on an open source funding model

Indirect funding and the limits of free software patronage | Teleogistic

A few thoughts about direct and indirect funding for free software development.

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Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software

The technology overrunning our communities isn't built for the benefit of humanity: it's built so that billionaires can control us. Our lives don't have to be this way. The FSF empowers users with free software, technology built through global collaboration, mutual respect, and above all, freedom. The FSF will always continue to resist the encroachment of nonfree software. We're fighting to protect all computer users and build a better future.

Bare the wealth

A Linux programmer builds a "wealth monitor" that tracks Red Hat's valuation and who's getting rich off free software.

When Free Software Depends on Nonfree - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

When a program is free software (free as in freedom), that means it gives users the four freedoms, so that they control what the program does. In most cases, that is sufficient for the program's distribution to be ethical; but not always. There are additional problems that can arise in specific circumstances. This article describes a subtle problem, where upgrading the free program requires using a nonfree program.

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Ten more unintuitive things about impact philanthropy fundraising

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In Thrall to Scarcity

As I’ve talked about in this space in the past, I’ve been coming to some conclusions about free software (open source, or whatever you want to call it): the economics of it, like anythi…