Open source is not a business model. How many articles do we need decrying the lack of OSS devs making money? Like anything, one must market a product for it t

Open source is not a business model. How many articles do we need decrying the lack of OSS devs making money? Like anything, one must market a product for it to have customers, regardless of being OSS or not. A great example is Plausible analytics (MIT licensed so not even copyleft, many might say they're just giving their software away for free) which reached 1.2 million dollars in annual recurring revenue in around 2 years with only a couple of founders. They posted an article where it shows how when it was just the solo developer, they were making a small, somewhat insignificant amount of money, but when they got a marketing co-founder, their growth exploded [0]. They literally went from $400 MRR to $100k MRR, an increase of 2500x in 2 years, all due to having someone market a product they built. I think it's mostly developers who don't really want to (or even understand the value of) marketing for their product who then cry about not making money. Well, are you actually trying to make money? Instead we get articles like these asking for some sort of fund for OSS (which do exist, but again, need to be competed for), asking for some collective solution to their individual problem rather than actually doing something about it themselves while other devs make money hand over fist, or at least enough to not get another job. [0] https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas#february-looking-for-a-marketing-co-founder-403-mrr https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas#february-looking-...