# FLOSS projects and business models

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/floss-projects-and-business-models/39607
**Category:** General
**Created:** 2026-08-04T09:37:00Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @juncture8425 — 2026-08-04T09:37:00Z

Cryptomator is an interesting example. It’s fully open source under GPL, but they charge a one off fee for mobile clients. Despite it being GPL, there aren’t any reproduced builds in repos I have seen where it’s available for free.

I think that’s actually pretty cool. Open source projects always have this issue of monetisation. How has Cryptomator managed to do this, when others have failed? Any other good examples of a FLOSS project that monetises well?

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## Post 2 by @fossman — 2026-08-04T14:33:31Z

[Ardour DAW](https://ardour.org/) is another good example. You can build yourself from source, or you can pay to get official binaries.