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Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source While reading some forum postings at the Sublime Text Editor site, I came across a pointer to an experiment that the developer at hardcoded.net is running in something he calls "Fairware": http://open.hardcoded.net/. How does Fairware work? All hours developers invest in projects are public, as well as their hourly rate expectations. All contributions from fair users are also instantly made public (anonymously). When contributions are made, they are allocated to unpaid development hours (see the F.A.Q. for details). Everyone can thus easily know how many hours have yet to be compensated. Also, users are made aware that the software is Fairware with a dialog that pops up for users who haven't contributed yet, reminding them of expectations from developers. With enough fair users, such a system allows open source developers working on software for a wide audience to do so full time. I don't know about you, but I find that awesome. Of course, since the software is open source, you could build a version without the nag. But it seems most (or at least enough) people aren't interested in bypassing the nag that way. It looks like hardcoded.net has been doing this for about a year, and it appears to be more or less successful. The applications look interesting enough that I may give a couple a go. Also, there's a bunch of information and statistics about the Fairware concept itself (including stats on hours spent working on the software and the donations/payments received in return). Interesting stuff. |
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