Making Money As An Open Source Game Developer?

Fastball asks: "I have a couple ideas for some web-based games that I'd like to develop. I'm an avid Linux, Perl, Apache, and MySQL user, and I believe in the GPL. However, I'm trying to figure out how I can develop these games as open source and still make a buck. It would be rewarding to produce them without seeing a profit, but I'd like to make enough money to get a company going and quit my current, uninspiring job. Can I get there via open source, would I be more profitable going closed source, or should I forget about make money altogether?"

I want stuff too

[Anomolous Cow Herd]

I want to be paid millions of dollars a year for having sex with many beautiful women.

Is there any way I could do this? I currently work the fryer at McDonalds and I'm looking to move into a more profitable venture.

Re:I want stuff too

[aozilla]

I want to be paid millions of dollars a year for having sex with many beautiful women. Is there any way I could do this?

Sorry, U.S. President only pays $200,000, and promiscuous sex was made illegal in 1998.

Re:Hint.

[Fantanicity]

This model works really well when one of the puzzles in the game is to decrypt an email encrypted with a 1024-bit PGP key.

Re:Hard Market... Fun Job... Skills First

[abdulla]

Whoa whoa, hold on, this is too much to take in, she's a programmer and likes games? Can you introduce me? ;)

Repeat

[4of12]

Over the past few years I've cut n saved some of the Slashdot signatures. One, in particular, applies to this situation. I don't recall the specific Slashdot poster whose signature said:

Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.

and I don't know who said first, either.