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Discussion on: Tell Me Why? Open Source vs Proprietary

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Well it depends
If you want to earn something from it or not .
If not go definitely for OpenSource 🤩.

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Abanoub Hanna

Is there a way to earn and develop it as an opensource at the same time?

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

You can always ask people to support you through any monetary services like Patreon etc...

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Also you can add some paid services in your project which may require users to pay some amount monthly/yearly etc.

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Abanoub Hanna

Great ideas! thanks for your answers.

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JeffD

Just to add an example, Wallabag is a open-source self hosted solution but you can pay to have an account hosted by the developper (wallabag.it). This is a very conveniant solution for people who don't want to create/manage a server. For this product, online paid version is the same as free self-hosted.

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Abanoub Hanna

Thanks for this example