How about you reserve the right to sell advertising space on the tickets themselves. User gets the software for free, you get the advertising revenue? You may have to allow the user some kind of veto, but you could offer the user a choice of two or three advertisers, one of which they're probably happy to allow onto their tickets. Or even allow the user to advertise themselves on their own tickets!
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How about you reserve the right to sell advertising space on the tickets themselves. User gets the software for free, you get the advertising revenue? You may have to allow the user some kind of veto, but you could offer the user a choice of two or three advertisers, one of which they're probably happy to allow onto their tickets. Or even allow the user to advertise themselves on their own tickets!
http://petition.eurolinux.org/