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Ask HN: How are open source developers making money?

• pabs3 2y ago
  Lots of resources for that here: https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources
• orionblastar 2y ago
  Donations, documentation books/ebooks, small jobs modifying code as a consultant. Open Source and Free Software have an NPR/PBS business model sometimes corporations like Microsoft and IBM donate to them, sometimes they have to take donations from users.
• al_borland 2y ago
  Support contracts.
• ogarten 2y ago
  More often than not by working a full-time job somewhere else. Besides that, there are support contracts, sponsorships and stuff like that, but I'd say there are not a lot of people able to live from that alone.
• alexliu518 2y ago
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