I made a little bit of money writing open source game.<p>Some people, like Jason Rohrer, made his living based on donation from the public and patronage. <a href="http://libregamewiki.org/Jason_Rohrer" rel="nofollow">http://libregamewiki.org/Jason_Rohrer</a><p>Also, lot of people are probably buying Wesnoth on the iphone judging by tons of iphone reviews that I have spotted using google alert. <a href="http://wesnoth.repositoryhosting.com/trac/wesnoth_wesnoth/" rel="nofollow">http://wesnoth.repositoryhosting.com/trac/wesnoth_wesnoth/</a><p>Game developers DOES make money while releasing open source software. I just hope you don't move the goalpost in your next comment.