Business model for Open Source - advice wanted

[Graham Fawcett]

Without regard to the specifics of your question: if you haven't done
so already, I'd recommend reading Eric Raymond's essay "The Magic
Cauldron."

Summary: "This paper analyzes the economics of open-source software.
It includes some explosion of common myths about software production
economics, a game-theoretical account of why open-source cooperation
is stable, and a taxonomy of open-source business models."

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/

-- Graham