16. What open source models are available for businesses?

[MichaelRimler]

What open source models are available for businesses?

[KatjaGlassConsulting]

Good overview available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software

• Professional services
• Branded merchandise
• Software as a service
• Voluntary donations
• Crowdsourcing
• Training and certification
• Partnership with funding organizations
• Advertising-supported software
• Bounty driven development
• Pre-order/crowdfunding/reverse-bounty model
• Selling optional proprietary extensions

[KatjaGlassConsulting]

Examples available in our industry:

• Company projects - Admiral, Shiny Apps, ... - companies allow their employees to invest their working time
• RPact - membership funds project, some services only for members, source code is open source
• R Consortium - funding some OS projects / supporting events
• Atorus - deliver OS, provide services and use partnerships
• no example - Pinnacle Community Edition, this is not using a FOSS license (even though you can review the code, you are not allowed to reuse and similar)