How To Make Money With Free Software

fons writes "Dutch Python hacker/artist Stani took part in a contest organised by the Dutch Ministry Of Finance to design a 5 euro commemorative coin. And he won, using only free software: 'The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian. I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.'"

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I already know the ways

[CovenantMG]

First way: (the redhat method)
Step 1: wait:
for a commercial product to be successful after years of money is spent designing and coding it. keep waiting until someone decides to clone that product on his own for curiosity or because of a belief in free software
Step 2: collect it into a distribution. Hire some people to 'support' it.
Step 3:Profit

Alternately (the stalman method):
1: convince people free software is a great idea
2: collect large speaking fees discussing the work done by others who have taken up your cause.
3: profit