Paid for applications?

[Chris Rees]

On 10 October 2010 22:49, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I love the idea of for pay applications. As much as I love
> open source, there are many applications that will *never* land on the
> desktop unless the makers can make money off of it. PhotoShop is a
> much cited example but there are others. Sure, there are sometimes
> Linux alternatives but, let's be honest: a business isn't going to
> move their entire graphics team to Gimp when they all are experts in
> PhotoShop. Some might, most won't.
>
> Paid applications are going to be a fantastic thing for Linux.
> Charging money for apps isn't as evil as some believe and it actually
> helps a platform sometimes.
>

What you refer to as 'open source' doesn't need to be free as in free
beer. It's perfectly possible to make money from free software, just
as Canonical does, just as Red Hat does, just as Sun did.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Read and learn.

Chris