James Akers
@JamesAkers@expressional.social
Artist/ sculptor working with glass, neon, electronics and other materials. Interested in unsustainability, commercialism, short attention spans, the ad tech industry and developing my dev skills. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Message me and I may respond.
expressional.social
As I look at monetizing some of the little software tools I am making, I have been told by some of the people I show them to, to look into copyrights.
I do admire a good idea, and more and more- a good business model that keeps people honest and away from the creepy surveillance capitalist ways.
When chatting with some folks and looking into open source licenses, I find myself drawn to closed custom licensing agreements that would lend themselves to one time purchases of self hostable servers, that could run on other hardware, or even be resold, but not duplicated (like selling an instance to a hoster that can serve many people, but the hoster wouldn't be able to create another instance).
In this way, my business model would be selling new instances of my webapp tools for artists, and servicing them.
Any business model/ monetization advice on keeping things open source vs closed and copyright proprietary?
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