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Me and the guests

How can it work to have software which has its source open and free for everyone to see and still make money with it?

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My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Background
**** Where are you from?
**** Why Sweden?
**** What did you do before?
**** How did you get into Free and Open Source software?
**** Are you a progpammer?
*** Free software
**** Difference between Free and Open Source software
**** GPL
***** Tivoization
***** LGPL
**** MIT/BSD
***** more/less free than GPL?
**** Legal actions, who can sue?
*** How to make money?
**** Wikipedia
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
**** Clynx story
***** can't sell services or hardware
***** wants to make money with enduser desktop/mobile apps