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In my own view, as an open source maintainer, aiming to gain revenue from open-source is kind of a fool’s errand, as it’s not really compatible with FOSS. It’s
by thosakwe 7y ago
In my own view, as an open source maintainer, aiming to gain revenue from open-source is kind of a fool’s errand, as it’s not really compatible with FOSS. It’s just not.
At the end of the day, the best way for a single developer to extract revenue from a software project is to sell licenses, which is nothing new.
Obviously, it’s just my two cents, but I’ve long realized that I will probably never see a dime from my open source work, and that’s fine by me. That’s not my goal in producing free software, to begin with, and I don’t know of many cases where that’s worked out without starting a complementary company/foundation (RedHat, MongoDB, etc.)