I'm waiting for my honest business practices to pay off.
No cookies, no ads, donations only.
It hasn't paid off aside from about 1k per year in revenue and lots of thank you emails.
No cookies, no ads, donations only.
It hasn't paid off aside from about 1k per year in revenue and lots of thank you emails.
After a while I changed to donations Because the idea was to help people. And my day job pays 6 figs.
Please breed if you can ;-) Hum, I mean, transmit who you are to other, infect them with greatness, however you can (books is a great idea, teaching and mentoring as well).
FWIW I think there's an ethical way to profit, but we have to be willing to wait for the value we created to actually materialize in the real world. A not-so-rare case, I think, is people donating large amounts to their mentors, once they "get there", once they're established and earning enough (likely 2-5 years after the mentorship or transmission took place; sometimes way more).
You certainly can't live from those returns. Some of them might be fabulous though, if what you transmitted was really life-changing. I guess. Never been on that side of things (gave, did not receive) but I'm thinking putting out the value is the mission, and anything else is a secondary concern (just keep that day job to pay the bills).
Have a great one.
Note that there was essentially zero income for the first 8 years, and then a slow, steady rise once I needed to make a living again and instituted the Radiohead-inspired "pay tunnel".
The GPL license give you better protection then say MIT in this regard though.
It helped that I had 8 years (post-amzn) not needing to make any income and thus able to build a large amount of goodwill and visibility within relevant communities.
People do "steal" the software in the sense of putting it into DVD/ISO packages that they charge for.
My concern has never been that everyone pays, only that enough people pay. But perhaps that's why Ableton Live changed the zeitgeist of computer music production, and Ardour is just ... Ardour.