Well having run an open source project now for going on 4 years and having worked on other open source project as well I thought it would be a good idea to post about the ins and outs of running open-source projects and our business. I often get asked, how do you make money if your project is open source? Well good question, short answer is directly from the project revenue such as donations we don’t. Donations to open source projects are very few and far between. No one should ever take on an open source project unless you have a personal attachment to it and want to see it succeed. The ways we have found to make money and support the open source project have changed since I started the company and continue to evolve. However it has always been in some service that is tied closely to the project..
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