How easy is it to get open source software projects funded?
December 26th, 2009 | 
Author: If there is a gap in the open source software world for a particular application/system, is it generally possible to find companies/public organisations to help fund the creation of that project if someone is willing to coordinate / manage the project? Does anyone have any examples of projects initiated in this way? I’m thinking of a scale of project larger than a Google summer of code.
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Tags: application system, gap, google, open source software, public organisations, software projects, software world
The whole point of open source is that it is developed cheaply to make it publicly available. Nobody will fund anything for it. If you develop a useful program and others think it has potential you may find they will assist free in the development. If it becomes a big enough project a company may provide limited funding to make it suit their use. You have to release the source code of everything you distribute or it ceases to be open source.