Re: [Trisquel-users] The Economics of Free Software

[chris]

There are various good examples. Redhat, ThinkPenguin, and others. While most  
wouldn't associate us (ThinkPenguin) with software development we are funding  
it. Some of this is going into new features for the web platform our site is  
based off. Some of it is going to Trisquel and much more of it is going to  
other projects. The numbers are not insignificant relative to our current  
size.  It's in the 10s of thousands of dollars range right now (per year).  
Actually- that's more like what it was. We have implemented some partnerships  
which I'm hoping has caused an increase of our numbers 30 fold. Not yet  
conclusive (I've only got a week or so of data which is bizarrely different).