Giving money to open source

A year and a half ago, the excellent Linux music player Amarok added extensive support for Magnatune. The programmer, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen, did this on his own initiative, simply because he thought it’d be a neat thing for his favorite music player to have, and because he liked Magnatune’s business philosophy.

I really like Amarok, so I volunteered that I’d be happy to donate 10% of gross sales at Magnatune caused by Amarok. I was also so pleased with the quality of Nikolaj’s work, that I hired him, and he now spends 50% of his time on Magnatune, and I pay for him to spend the other 50% of his time on Amarok.

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