Business models for open-source software
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Challenges
- 3 Approaches
- 3.1 Dual-licensing
- 3.2 Selling professional services
- 3.3 Selling of branded merchandise
- 3.4 Selling of certificates and trademark use
- 3.5 Selling software as a service
- 3.6 Partnership with funding organizations
- 3.7 Voluntary donations
- 3.8 Bounty driven development
- 3.9 Pre-order/crowdfunding/reverse-bounty model
- 3.10 Advertising-supported software
- 3.11 Selling of optional proprietary extensions
- 3.12 Selling of required proprietary parts of a software product
- 3.13 Re-licensing under a proprietary license
- 3.14 Obfuscation of source code
- 3.15 Delayed open-sourcing