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There are any number of ways to get paid for your labour as a hacker. 1. Charge for running the service. 2. Take a cut of transactions over the service. 3. Cha
by yarrel 11y ago
There are any number of ways to get paid for your labour as a hacker.
1. Charge for running the service.
2. Take a cut of transactions over the service.
3. Charge for feature additions.
4. Charge for installation/configuration/support/maintainance.
5. Patreon-style support (including Patreon).
6. Sell physical media & merchandise (don't laugh, ask a band).
etc.
Now, about how proprietary software companies can ever hope to compete with Google even if they don't lose all their revenue to piracy...
- pjmlp 11y agoTry to apply that model for desktop/native software to average Joe on the street.
- hyperpape 11y agoNone of this is responsive. I should've been more explicit that what I described didn't include hosted services, but it doesn't. There are tons of ways to make money in open source. I just don't think they're selling software that could be torrented. It's really a pretty trivial point, and one I maybe shouldn't have bothered to make--I just got in a pedantry skirmish.
- cwyers 11y agoMost of those aren't getting paid for your labor as a hacker, which is to say, a programmer. They're getting paid for support, for ops, for server time -- number 3 is the only one that directly pertains to writing code. So you can monetize ancilliary activities, but the act of giving source code away for free devalues the act of actually writing source code and makes it difficult to monetize the writing of source code itself, not the ancilliaries.