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>Open-source is extremely difficult to make even a living wage off of… So are you saying it’s even possible? I wish to learn at least one option to do it. Few
by lovelyviking 3y ago
>Open-source is extremely difficult to make even a living wage off of…
So are you saying it’s even possible? I wish to learn at least one option to do it. Few is even better. How at all you can realistically make living this way?
Ok, not living , just partial income.
Ok not partial. Some income?
I am not making fun of I honestly look some way .
I understand that if you maintain 10 years some essential part of essential software project then people eventually come to you for consulting or will pay you to shift this part toward their requirements.
But other then that? Like can you write useful free software program and really have some money from it ?
- throw10920 3y agoThe main options that I'm aware of are: selling support (RedHat), donations (I can't recall examples but they do exist), open-core (GitLab), and paid hosting (WordPress). In the past, there was also the option of selling physical media (which the FSF did for GNU projects, for instance) but that's been killed by the Internet. All of these models are very hard to get working (e.g. the donations model requires that you have a very large number of people interested in your work who are generous with their money, kind of like Twitch streaming), but they can work. They're not an option for the majority of programmers, though.
- shwouchk 3y agoJoey Hess (https://joeyh.name/ https://joeyh.name/) did, at least partially. I remember him raising money to develop git annex.
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