Funding Doubly Free Projects (was: Re: [ox-en] sell your free software "lifestyle" business for nine figures [u])
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:02:34 +0200
Hi lists!
6 months (196 days) ago Benj Mako Hill wrote:
I've documented a bit of this in an essay I wrote on financing
voluntary free software projects:
http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html
Since funding of Free Projects is a much discussed topic at the moment
I took the time to read Makos text carefully. It's great :-) . I'd
recommend everyone here advocating funding of Free Projects to read it
carefully and to keep it in mind. The main message to me is: Never
ever fund the volunteers working on the project's core goals unless
you want to turn the project in a non-Free one.
Because Mako is deeply involved in Free Software I'm convinced he
absolutely knows what he's talking about. Because of this I created a
page
http://en.wiki.oekonux.org/Oekonux/Research/FundingVolunteers
containing an outline for quick readers. On the talk page I also added
some comments.
Also I'm a bit proud that so far Oekonux - being itself a Doubly Free
Project - used the funding in exactly the ways which in Mako's essay
are labeled being low risk: For conferences and technical
infrastructure :-) .
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
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