Really interesting article and perspective for devs in the OSS world looking for greater financial stability. I’m curious, how do you strike a balance between dual licensing and building trust and adoption early on?
Later, when I quit my full time job to build my own startup, I needed something for survival. The first project I picked up again was lightGallery. It was already quite popular back then, so I decided to rewrite it from scratch and implement dual licensing.
So, basically the trust and adoption were built over years when it was free. The monetization came much later.