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There are so many open source utilities that we all use like maven, subversion, etc. and all these open source platforms. How do these developers make money?
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Some companies make money with open source in this way: they distribute their software for free, but charge money for additional features, functionalities, or updates.
Yes. People will realize that the value of open source is in the for-profit services that go with it, not the software itself. And they'll learn that a proprietary approach just can't compete with the growing number of open-source programmers.
I can think of four ways:
1) The open source project is a side project and have a job as their source of income
2) They have a corporate sponsor that pays the devs a salary
3) They develop their OSS project and then sell services based on that project (ie, I give away MySQL for free, and do consulting installing and maintaining MySQL for companies
4) They develop a base version of the OSS project, and then develop and sell commercial add-ons for it
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