Comment by O_H_E
7 years ago
And that's the biggest misunderstood concept in free software. "Free" here doesn't mean free of money but freedom. FSF actually encourages requiring money for software.
7 years ago
And that's the biggest misunderstood concept in free software. "Free" here doesn't mean free of money but freedom. FSF actually encourages requiring money for software.
Is there anyone that successfully does that though? I can only think of the Ardour DAW, which offers itself for a dollar so you can avoid trying to build gtk. It even offers a crippled, costless version.
https://community.ardour.org/download_form
A lot of companies build something "more usable" on top of open source software and sell that.