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Editorial Director Andrew Gregory claimed the magazine would return a portion of profits to "the community that we serve".<ref name=gazette />

The magazine shared 50% of its yearly profits with reader voted FOSS projects. The profits arewere split between 'software' and 'projects and distros' with the top 3 winners in each category receiving a part of the total funds. In 2015 the winners in the software category were [[Scribus]] which was awarded £1000, [[GIMP]] was awarded £300 and [[Inkscape]] was awarded £200. In the projects and distros category, the [[Open Rights Group]] was awarded £1000, the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] was awarded £300 and the [[Free Software Foundation]] was awarded £200.<ref>{{cite web|title=First Profit Donating Scheme: The Winners!|url=http://www.linuxvoice.com/first-profit-donating-scheme-the-winners/|author=Andrew Gregory|date=May 7, 2015}}</ref>

Nine months after an issue was published, it was made available under the [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported]] license for all to read without charge in both PDF and ePub formats.<ref>{{cite web|title=Creative Commons Issues|url=https://www.linuxvoice.com/creative-commons-issues/|website=Linux Voice|accessdate=7 November 2016}}</ref>