Open Sourcing & getting paid are not incompatible. In general developers are very bad at marketing their open source software - poor website design, very technical explanations (if any).. remember people who are NOT going to pay for your software are people who are probably as skilled as the developer.. they won't spend any penny and can quickly figure out how to use your software. The people who might pay for your software are people who are not very tech savvy, need to solve a problem for 1/4 of the price than if they were to go with commercial software.. usually they won't mind paying for the software to be installed by expert hands and might as well buy extras from you.. just be creative as how you can make money : ongoing support, user manual, extra features (just like TV packages), value added (private) forum, and so on.. so YES it's possible to make money out of open source software, if right from the beginning you think Service, Service, Service
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Open Sourcing & getting paid are not incompatible. In general developers are very bad at marketing their open source software - poor website design, very technical explanations (if any) .. remember people who are NOT going to pay for your software are people who are probably as skilled as the developer .. they won't spend any penny and can quickly figure out how to use your software. The people who might pay for your software are people who are not very tech savvy, need to solve a problem for 1/4 of the price than if they were to go with commercial software.. usually they won't mind paying for the software to be installed by expert hands and might as well buy extras from you .. just be creative as how you can make money : ongoing support, user manual, extra features (just like TV packages), value added (private) forum, and so on .. so YES it's possible to make money out of open source software, if right from the beginning you think Service, Service, Service
does it work with OpenBTS? http://openbts.sourceforge.net/
Based on responses from 2052 people : http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/statements/i-would-use-this-language-for-a-web-project -- I would either go for NodeJS with RailwayJS or Python with Web2py.