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The possibility of coding on FOSS projects while earning a decent income might be low, but the idea is intriguing. We could build a way to make such a route mor
by rw 18y ago
The possibility of coding on FOSS projects while earning a decent income might be low, but the idea is intriguing. We could build a way to make such a route more feasible for our idealistic comrades. Or, it might be impossible.
Any hackers here doing something like the OP?
- SwellJoe 18y agoOur business (Virtualmin) is about 90% Open Source. There are only a few components of our products that aren't Open, and those primarily because they simply require so much tedious maintenance and are related to security. There are a few other features that are included in the proprietary version and not the GPL version because they are pretty much only useful for people making money with the software. It's probably not wholly the kind of thing the author of the article would approve of, since it does involve closing off some of the code...but the popularity of our Open Source projects have gone up notably since we started the company, so I think we're walking the fine line effectively.