The time for open source, Part 2, Make money giving things away

Open source is all right, John, but you'll never make a living at it.

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Peter Seebach

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How can you make money giving away your product? There are many ways. This article, second in a series, looks at the business models that have made it possible for people to generate money working on open source, perhaps explaining why there's so much of it.

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