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If a good developer can't make money from their projects or applications then they are not making applications other people value enough to actually pay for! Ma
by buzz 16y ago
If a good developer can't make money from their projects or applications then they are not making applications other people value enough to actually pay for! Maybe the OP should make something people want!!!
- HNer 16y agoOn the contrary look at Zed Shaws http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563205 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563205 post about asking for donations... A great project with wide adoption, yet turning no profit
- ptomato 16y agoUmm, Mongrel2 is probably great, but it certainly doesn't have wide adoption as of yet. It was started only a few weeks ago. You may be thinking of the original Mongrel, which doesn't really have any relation to the new one except by name. (And they're both http servers.)
- lelele 16y agoBecause he is not selling it. How can you expect to make money on a product by giving out it for free? Google make gobs of money giving out web search for free, but Google's product is not search, it is advertising, and you pay for it.
- pierrefar 16y agoNot necessarily: the good developer might be a rubbish marketer or sales person and cannot reach potential customers and those reached are not converted.