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Making Money As An Open Source Game Developer?

Posted by Cliff on from the learning-from-the-Loki-experience dept.

Fastball asks: "I have a couple ideas for some web-based games that I'd like to develop. I'm an avid Linux, Perl, Apache, and MySQL user, and I believe in the GPL. However, I'm trying to figure out how I can develop these games as open source and still make a buck. It would be rewarding to produce them without seeing a profit, but I'd like to make enough money to get a company going and quit my current, uninspiring job. Can I get there via open source, would I be more profitable going closed source, or should I forget about make money altogether?"

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  1. I want stuff too by Anomolous+Cow+Herd · · Score: 5, Funny
    I want to be paid millions of dollars a year for having sex with many beautiful women.

    Is there any way I could do this? I currently work the fryer at McDonalds and I'm looking to move into a more profitable venture.

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    "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
    1. Re:I want stuff too by aozilla · · Score: 3, Funny

      I want to be paid millions of dollars a year for having sex with many beautiful women. Is there any way I could do this?

      Sorry, U.S. President only pays $200,000, and promiscuous sex was made illegal in 1998.

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      ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
  2. Re:Hint. by Fantanicity · · Score: 2, Funny

    This model works really well when one of the puzzles in the game is to decrypt an email encrypted with a 1024-bit PGP key.

  3. Re:Hard Market... Fun Job... Skills First by abdulla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whoa whoa, hold on, this is too much to take in, she's a programmer and likes games? Can you introduce me? ;)

  4. Repeat by 4of12 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Over the past few years I've cut n saved some of the Slashdot signatures. One, in particular, applies to this situation. I don't recall the specific Slashdot poster whose signature said:

    Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
    and I don't know who said first, either.
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