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Originally Posted by Brujah
I think it's misguided to overlook the profit potential in open-source, no matter what industry. Open source and non-profit are not synonymous. Linux, Apache, MySQL, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, ... the open source model is just a little different but in no way does it mean there's no money to be made.
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oh, there is probably plenty to be made since you could hire yourself out to develop customised stuff, no doubt. However, most places have their in-house staff, so you would get no love now business from them, although you could charge for support.
Most of the main OS titles though rely on donations (redhat and mysql excepted - apache is still a foundation I believe) and this does work for smaller things - for eg from a very very small non-OS but free personal example - donations I receive average 3000-5000? per year, which is more than enough to keep me going. These donations come mainly from the odd 10? here and there and then some larger 2-400? donations at regular intervals. I don't ask for them, but just suggest people should donate to keep it free. About 1% have the conscience to do this. However, I have yet to receive a donation from anyone in the adult community (even though ~8% of traffic is from them)
This community has never shown (me anyway) any indication it would support anything that was given away for free.
I do stand to be corrected though
