Business and Jobs

• How to get paid for open source

  • Nonprofit
    • Never 501(c) yourself: use an umbrella such as Software in the Public Interest
  • Work for a company
    • Experience with OSS
    • Track record of contribution
      • Github
      • Large project commit logs, which sometimes are GitHub fork
    • Understanding of OSS ecosystems
      • Licensing / IP rules
      • Community
    • Contractor/Consultant
    • Entrepreneur
      • Gives less tangible assets to company
      • Gives a great distribution channel
      • Free workforce
      • Talk to someone if you want to do this

• How corporate views Open Source

  • Used a lot for in-house dev
  • View free licenses as good, viral as bad
    • Keep their mouth shut about the latter
  • Pretty essential to everything now