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To Open Source, Or Not? 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "I decided to release a financial application I'm working on to the public. I want to make some money from the app, not that I expect to become a millionaire from it. The problem is I'd like nothing better than to open source it. I can see many aspects of the app I don't have time to work on that other developers can definitely improve on...but how can I make money on something by open sourcing it? How have you or other developers open sourced your applications and still managed to make it profitable or is this impossible? And this is not the type of app I would make money from support..."
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  • Bill Gates has been releasing semi-functioning software for years, and is a billionaire, so I guess you could make money. But do you want to be another Bill Gates ???? Just Kidding. Open Source should be just that - you could ask for a donation I suppose.

Life is one long struggle in the dark. -- Titus Lucretius Carus