One idea that I think could be interesting is to take jobs working on existing free software projects. Maybe a project has 150 open issues and someone is partic

One idea that I think could be interesting is to take jobs working on existing free software projects. Maybe a project has 150 open issues and someone is particularly bothered by one with no attention since 2018, so they're willing to pay for it to be fixed. This way you still make money (if you can find such deals/jobs) but you aren't locking out a share of users by charging everyone for a piece of software. I've seen a bit of this sort of dynamic on the omemo.top site, where you can see which XMPP clients have OMEMO support. In the case of clients lacking it, they link to open issues, and some show cash bounties on them. I care about free as in freedom more than free as in no cost, but I don't think I've used any paid software... pretty much in my whole life. Unless you count using MS Office or Photoshop in a school computer lab where the school had paid for licenses for all the machines. (and even then it was rare for me to use any non-gratis stuff)