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>An open source project does not, and cannot, make money. Why not? What if you collect large donations? Wikimedia makes a lot of money (for itself) even with
by yreg 4y ago
>An open source project does not, and cannot, make money.
Why not? What if you collect large donations?
Wikimedia makes a lot of money (for itself) even with all the open-source-non-affiliated activities removed.
- teddyh 4y agoYou could say that it’s the fundraising which makes the money, but I must admit that this is a weak argument at best. So I guess that you’re right, you can finance a FOSS project by donations. But this only works for both very useful and very public projects, like Wikipedia.