[PD] no licensing, no money?

[Maarten de Boer]

Hi Max,

An example comes to mind. The guys behind the Rosegarden software
started a music oriented linux distro, http://www.ferventsoftware.com,
as a way to finance their development of Rosegarden. Currently it doesn't
include PD, but it's an example of how free software can be combined
with a commercial offering.

But the most common way I suppose would be selling "support" (including
implemented new custom features, etc). I guess all it would take in the
case of PD is some company offering such support for PD.

I see the FSF has on webpage on the subject:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

maarten



On Tue, 17 May 2005 01:07:37 +0200
Max Neupert <abonnements at revolwear.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I'm curious to hear your point of view to this: the university asked me 
> to review the list of software they want to order for the department. 
> They've got also Max/MSP and Jitter on the list. This is a nice thing 
> but my point is: the students already work with PD, why should they use 
> and learn software they might not be able to afford after they leave 
> the university? I guess you all agree that the money should rather be 
> spent in PD development. but since there is no license to aquire the 
> university can't ask companys to give bids on this deal. how can open 
> source projects handle this? any suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Max Neupert
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> Hochschule für Kunst und Design
> Burg Giebichenstein
> Halle, Deutschland
> 
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