Your comment about leveraging an OSS project as a marketing tool is theoretically valid but, even when you follow best practice, it still doesn't always monetiz

Your comment about leveraging an OSS project as a marketing tool is theoretically valid but, even when you follow best practice, it still doesn't always monetize as you might hope. I have an active open source project, hosted on CodePlex, but also with its own supporting website, complete with dozens of tutorials and other resources. Traffic to the site is respectable (thanks to a few widely-read articles) and the downloads from CodePlex run into the thousands. The majority of the users are corporate, so there is potentially lots scope for consulting projects and I never fail to follow-up opportunities. However, despite all of this, the only return I have so far earned from my efforts is the right to spend much of my spare time providing free support.