Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India
There needs to be a sustainable free software business model that small and large companies can easily adopt.<p>Donations aren&#x27;t enough.<p>Support based models like RedHat lead to bad incentives and seems to limit one to enterprise clients. Its an option however, but then you&#x27;re not directly selling your software either, but rather running a side gig alongside development.<p>Most other models that I see working involve saas &#x2F; hosting, which is a good compromise but also weird: the creator earns nothing if you benefit from the license and use it to host your own instance, which is unfortunate and yet amazing for the end users.<p>There is also the industry association model like Linux uses, which has merit: various stakeholders buy an interest in a project to fund open development. This isn&#x27;t feasible for the average entrepreneur though, although the creator of Vue apparently has some respectable funding.<p>The creators of something so great for end users should be able to get rich for doing so, rather than needing to make personal financial sacrifices to dedicate their time to the work. It should be more win win.