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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
And some of those software writers take donations and would like to make a little money on the side too...Just sayin' The models, in some cases, aren't all that different.
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And
none of those software authors who take donations are making a
living on it, or even part of one.
There
are a few folks making a living in open source software because they do it as a day job. They work for places like Red Hat, which makes its money supporting commercial Linux installations, IBM, which uses a lot of open source code and pays some of their own people to help maintain and enhance it, or the Mozilla Foundation, most of whose revenue derives from search functionality incorporated into things like Firefox.
The vast majority of open source developers write open source code on the side and have day jobs.
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Dennis