I wouldn't offer the software for free for home use either. You're not Autodesk, yet.
Charge something like $50 to $100 for it. Or at the very least have a home use version that has limited functionality so people will want to upgrade later on down the road. Recall how Artsoft did his Mach series of CNC machine controllers. It was free for something like 1,500 lines of gcode instructions, which let one do all kinds of things with it, but if one wanted to get serious and do a detailed part you had to buy the full version to have unlimited capability with it.
Another thing I'd do is talk to a patent attorney and see if there is anything that you can patent within the functions of your software.
As for open source, nah, open source I feel is more for big things like web browsers and word processors and companies so big they are like God. 
Statistics: Posted by James — Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:04 am
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