This episode of Hacking Culture explores the topic of free software in the music industry. Matthew Tift talks with Jesse von Doom about how the CASH Music platform solves problems for working musicians, exploring such topics as funding a free software project, the challenges that come with running a non-profit organization, and promoting free software to musicians.

This episode is released under the Creative Commons attribution share alike 3.0 United States license. The theme music used in this episode comes from the Open Goldberg Variations, performed by Kimiko Ishizaka (http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org). The musical interludes all come from ccMixter.org. "Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)" by spinningmerkaba, featuring Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, and Alex Beroza (http://ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345), "Cafe connection" by morgantj, featuring Morusque (http://ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/18947), "I dunno" by grapes (http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626), and "Parametaphoriquement" by gmz (http://ccmixter.org/files/gmz/19367) under CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). "Naturally" by Vidian, featuring Michael Burns and Morea Arthur (http://ccmixter.org/files/Vidian/49087) under CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0).