How do open source programmers earn a living?
2006-10-27 18:50:02 · 3 answers · asked by headaches abound 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
If you are a open source programmer, you can still earn money by selling your software. The only thing is that you also have to give uour source code along with the software.
e.g. if you have the driver code for a USB device in linux, you can sell this code to different companies. The only thing is that if you are using any third party open source libraries, you should not make any changes to their code.
I have seen people who earn by developing open source softwares.
2006-10-27 19:48:33 · answer #1 · answered by manoj Ransing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most open source projects are totally voluntary so nothing is earned from it, but e.g. Red Hat provides a version of Linux that you will have to pay for and get full support for. It still is much cheaper than Windows though. It is a common misunderstanding that open source software is gratis (free as in free beer) per se.
2016-05-22 02:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
making 1 project as open source and 9 (out of 10) as highly paid make sense. ;)
2006-10-28 00:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They actually do it for fun on the side. Usually they have full time jobs .
2006-10-27 19:03:36 · answer #4 · answered by paintball814 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋