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What is a good business model for open source projects?

16th January 2011

My answer to What is a good business model for open source projects? on Quora

Consulting.

Build software that becomes widely used, then charge out your expertise. Plenty of open source projects are supported in this way.

Posted 16th January 2011 at 10:08 am · Follow me on Mastodon or Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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