Big Businesses don't want your software becoming abandon-ware.
Donations typically provide too little, too late (if anything at all).
Even worse, fair-minded IT Departments can’t convince Accounts Payable to approve discretionary donations.
Dual-licensing primarily works for a subset of GPL licensed infrastructure software, like data storage, that a company wants to embed deeply into their own product, but can work anytime commercial software has a GPL licensed dependency.
Relying on pressing market need to generate follow-on sales of ancillary products as a means to fund your work assumes that such "Enterprise Features" are withheld from the free-software, and are closed-source. Even if feasible and successful, this leads to significant back-office operations to collect these funds.
Help Big Businesses support your software
Better maintenance, better security, more enterprise features, and less abandonware.
- Big Businesses rely on free-software
- Big Businesses allocate capital to vendors
Big Businesses
allocate capital to vendors
don't want abandon‑ware
rely on free software
allocate capital to vendors
don't want abandon‑ware
rely on free software
Congratulations on owning an enterprise software licensing businesses
Now that Big Businesses will need to pay you to license new versions of your software, you need to plan for supporting business operations.
- Contacts
- Commercial Negotiations
- Sales and Marketing
- Billing, Record-keeping, Accounts Receivables, Terms, Collections
- Whistle Blower Reporting Programs
- Cease & Desist, Dispute Resolution Strategy & Prep, Damages & Interest, Enforcement
- OS.Cash can help you plan your license business. We'll give a free 45-minute consulting call to any developer who switches to the OS.Cash license. We also offer OS.Cash Butler, our turn key service to handle all aspects of the business while you can focus on great software
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