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Discussion on: Making a living from open source

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Brian Canzanella

Donations can be hard. I know someone with an incredibly popular IDE extension, and donations, in no way help offset the time & effort that goes into it, and corporate sponsorship could eat your soul. We at codestream.com are OSS but our pricing model only makes large[r] businesses and enterprises pay. Individuals and small teams are free forever.

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Rob OLeary • Edited

Absolutely Brian. The incentives are complex. If you have a day job and other interests, you wont be able to manage a very popular side project without a posse!

Codestream sounds interesting. I wish you success with it