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How to pay your rent with your open source project

Financial sacrifice should not be required to work on open source projects. These different business and pricing models are a reasonable way of making sure that people working on open source software get paid for their time and hard work.

submitted this link on August 23, 2022
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    So nice to see someone pointing out the obvious! Open source is so valuable and the people working on these projects do deserve to benefit it whatever ways possible. Thanks for the share!

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      glad you enjoyed the article Silvio!

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    Thanks for sharing Fleur! I got to introduce Armin Ronacher from on stage at WeAreDevelopers and he also had some great things to say on this topic, I particularly thought it was interesting how you can create a commercial open source product with a license that protects your products form competitors but still allows people to use/modify/contribute to it.

    I believe the video is unlisted so you can check it out here if you'd like: https://youtu.be/AqqMOQN75pw

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    I've bookmarked this to come back to it again later. A nice article with some clear suggestions and points for consideration.

    I'm glad to see the open source community continuing to grow and find new ways to offer services and products without having to take a financial sacrifice.

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      thanks! would be nice to get many more open source projects to the sustainable levels!

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    Probably one of the best articles I've seen linked on IndieHackers. Thank you!

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      thanks for the very kind words Ryan, appreciate it!

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    For some people working on open source is a creative outlet and they don't want or need anything in return. But for those of us who enjoy it but feel we can't afford to spend our time in that way, these are some good ideas.

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      yes, exactly! having the option to have your open source work pay your rent will make open source world much better with many new people being able to join and work on foss software

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    Great article. I am seriously considering making fabform.io open source.

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    great piece of information for earning while working on open source projects.

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    Thanks for sharing my post Fleur, appreciate it!

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