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Money Money Money! Writing software in a rich (wo)man's world Dr Russell Keith-Magee DjangoCon AU 2015

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Money Money Money! Writing software in a rich (wo)man's world Dr Russell Keith-Magee DjangoCon AU 2015

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PyXero

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Vested interests as a producer

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Vested interests as a consumer

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Absent of any other constraints, given equivalent resources, the free software approach produces vastly superior engineering outcomes than the closed-source approach.

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Absent of any other constraints, ‛given equivalent resources given equivalent resources“, the free software approach produces vastly superior engineering outcomes than the closed-source approach.

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The moral high road is littered with the corpses of our allies

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OpenSSL

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GnuPG

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Capistrano

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“ "Hi I'm an engineer at a well-funded company and we need this feature can someone implement it for free?" -- Every FOSS mailing list. ” Christophe Pettus (@xof)

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How do we pay the piper?

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Free software: Dream vs Realty

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Engagement

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A thought experiment

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Project or Product

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Projects

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Products

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Pragmatic Freedom

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Patches welcome

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Blaming the user

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9 women can't make a baby in 1 month

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Cathedral and the Bazaar

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Homesteading the Noosphere The Magic Cauldron

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Use value vs Sale value

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Use value vs Sale value

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Use value vs Sale value

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Merchandise

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Documentation

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Training

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Productizing

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SaaS

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SaaS

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Access to developers

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Access to software

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Certification and Guarantees

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Certification and Guarantees

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Undermining your value proposition

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Undermining your value proposition

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Undermining your value proposition

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Cost to the community

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Indirect cost to the community

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Indirect cost to the community

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Land mines

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A question of scale

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A question of scale

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Horses for courses

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Do you have to sell something?

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“ "How to make money from open source" is like "How to make money from clean water" or public education or science. ” Pieter Hintjens (@hintjens)

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Crowdfunding

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Django Migrations Multiple Template engines django.contrib.postgres Django Rest Framework

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Bug bounties

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Bug bounties

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Working income

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Working income

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Grants Fellowships Patreon

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Django Fellow

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Blood from a stone

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Corporate sponsorship

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OpenStack

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node.js

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A cautionary tale

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A cautionary tale

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Venture funding

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Magic beans

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Developing a patronage culture

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Developing a patronage culture

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Resource needs

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Red Cross

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Red Cross

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Facilitating patronage

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Making it easy to spend money and receive money

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Wordpress

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Wordpress Ecosystem

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Wordpress Ecosystem

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A controversial proposal

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What if...

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Running the numbers

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Standing on the shoulders of giants

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Development grants

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Free passes

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Naysayers

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Tragedy of the commons

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Learn from the MPAA and RIAA

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Make it easy to do the right thing.

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Silver bullets

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Difficult conversations

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