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Deriving economic profits from writing FREE software?
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- Subject: Deriving economic profits from writing FREE software?
- From: [email protected] (Igor)
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:11:23 -0600
- Newsgroups: misc.gnu.discuss,gnu.discuss,comp.os.linux.misc,misc.jobs.misc,alt.computer.consultants,comp.os.linux.advocacy
- Organization: Live Free or Die -- www.linux.org
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Hi,
At my leisure, I write free software. One of these programs is the usenet
moderation bot STUMP. Right now I am writing another free program. I feel
perfectly comfortable with the idea that I will not CHARGE money for these
programs; for one, I am a beneficiary of a multitude of excellent free
programs written by others, and just as well i realize that selling them
would be more of a hassle than it is worth.
My another pet idea is that programming is poetry, and therefore a
person who only writes commercial software is almost surely going to
lose whatever gift in programming that he had from God.
However, aside from the psychic benefits, I would like to somehow derive
an economic profit from being a freeware author. So far, I feel that the
status of the author of a popular package does sound good on a resume, but
it is as far as I could get.
Does anyone else feel the same way? Has anybody come up with a way to
cash in on the free programs that he writes?
Thank you.
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