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>No sensible person goes into FOSS for the money well, going FOSS can be an effective marketing strategy: by making something open and free (in both meanings)
by mr__y 7y ago
>No sensible person goes into FOSS for the money
well, going FOSS can be an effective marketing strategy: by making something open and free (in both meanings) you get much higher probability of that something becoming popular. That in turn gives a lot new opportunities to sell complementary something or other something. This is best case scenario though, and you need to have resources/other sources of income for the time it needs to get widely adopted and popular (or the very possibility that it will not happen at all)
- ghettoimp 7y agoEven without building some kind of product to sell, it's a way to get personal visibility and build your career.
- saagarjha 7y ago> going FOSS can be an effective marketing strategy: by making something open and free (in both meanings) you get much higher probability of that something becoming popular. That in turn gives a lot new opportunities to sell complementary something or other something. Right, and then people try to do that, fail to sell whatever it is that they thought they would, and end up putting some sort of annoyance on the code to punish those who are using it.