**What alternatives do people have to monetize software in a more ethical way? ** I particularly don’t understand the funding that some software receive. What they have to grant to receive those funds?
I also search for some type of monetization “model” better than donations, but more ethical than ads.
If it’s too much to explain I would be grateful for terms or books that I could search later.
I run my project from donations, sponsorships and paid support services. Am now more than covering my living costs, and forwarding a fair bit on to other open source projects (mainly project dependencies). I have a recent breakdown of finances here.
Divinci Code was great! Are you planning any new novels?