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Earning Money with Open Source Software?
An anonymous reader writes
"I've been working on a financial application which I've decided to release to the public. I want to make some money from the application, though I certainly don't expect to become a millionaire. The problem is that I'd like nothing better than to open-source it. There are many aspects of the application that I don't have time to refine, and other developers could definitely improve upon my work. However, I don't know how I earn money from something once I've made it open source. How have you dealt with trying to turn a reasonable profit on your work while remaining open-sourced?"
...we're doing something similar and assuming you have done something cool, perhaps there is room for co-operation? owonder.com/contact
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
There are plenty of ways to earn money with FLOSS. But why would you want to? Worshipping money and sex isn't all its cracked up to be. Besides hell sucks. How about this, start a commune of FLOSS software people, and play, not work. Start a no work club - despite what the slave drivers say in Hell, its perfectly legit to not work. Besides, by writing free software and releasing it to the public (best if for no charge), you will contribute to the human condition more than just about anyway else, provided the software is not evil (and considering financial software, unless its personal stuff like GNUCash it probably is evil). You're still going to die, and only then will you make your escape. BTW, you are assuredly going to heaven, because you cant be sent to hell, bcause ur already there.