A few ways to make money in FOSS

14 · Drew DeVault · Nov. 20, 2020, 8:02 p.m.
I work on free and open-source software full time, and I make a comfortable living doing it. And I don’t half-ass it: 100% of my code is free and open-source. There’s no proprietary add-ons, no periodic code dumps, just 100% bona-fide free and open source software. Others have often sought my advice — how can they, too, make a living doing open source? Well, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. There are many varieties of software, each with different needs, and many kinds of people, each wi...