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How do you monetize FOSS?

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  How do you monetize FOSS? "Bruce M. Axtens" <bugmagnet@outlook.com> - 2014-05-02 12:46 +0800
    Re: How do you monetize FOSS? Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 06:51 +0000

#2129 — How do you monetize FOSS?

People seem to be making money from FOSS. How is done? If I write an 
open-source programming language, and build a user-community, how do I 
keep wife and children alive? Where does the money come from?

-- Bruce

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Bruce M. Axtens <bugmagnet@outlook.com> wrote:
> People seem to be making money from FOSS. How is done? If I write an 
> open-source programming language, and build a user-community, how do I 
> keep wife and children alive? Where does the money come from?

I guess that nobody makes any money by writing FOSS these days. The
money probably comes from support contracts, contract work centered
around the FOSS, maybe giving lectures and writing books. The latter
two alone will not keep you alive, though. (Tried, failed.)

-- 
Nils M Holm  < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g >  www.t3x.org

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