How to pay your rent with your open source project
Most of the people writing OSS do it for fun&#x2F;side project&#x2F;to solve a problem, not for the money.<p>Problems come if that peace of software gets popular, they get a lot of bug reports, improvement suggestions&#x2F;requests, emails, noise in general. And a person who wrote the software has a full time job, so the time available for OSS is limited. That person is probably well paid in it&#x27;s current job, so the OSS has a long way to go in order to replace that income, meaning it&#x27;s very hard to transfer from a regular job to maintaining and living from your OSS.<p>And the most important thing - those people are pure engineers, that don&#x27;t know&#x2F;are not interested in business, marketing, making a product out of their software, etc.. practically anything besides coding. It&#x27;s like advising a mason: &quot;Hey man, you know how to build a building, why don&#x27;t you build one and sell it? You can pay the rent with it.&quot; It&#x27;s a bit more complicated than that.<p>But nice article overall, good starting point for someone who wants to find out more on the topic.