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Originally Posted by lamerhooD
Sure there is, if there is a community to back it and follow the development of it. People will not only donate money, but they will also donate their time for improvements... And on top of that, the support factor that some people will need can be costly at times... Installation/Tweaking, etc...
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True, but it will take months to build up "a community", if it even happens at all... I think what usually happens the coder is enthusiastic, launches it, updates it regularly, has big dreams of becoming the next wordpress, and then reality sets it, no $$ is being made, he thinks "fuck this" and the project gets abandoned.... I think that's what happens to 95% of open source projects...
If you are doing it for fun, then I guess why not, could get lucky and make some coin... but I wouldn't consider open source projects a viable way to make $$$....