







Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week | Kalzumeus Software
Selling Your Software To Businesses [TwilioCon 2012 presentation] | Kalzumeus Software
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like | Kalzumeus Software
Designing And Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game | Kalzumeus Software
The Money In Open-Source Software | TechCrunch
It’s no secret that open-source technology -- once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters -- has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are not financially healthy.

Bare the wealth
A Linux programmer builds a "wealth monitor" that tracks Red Hat's valuation and who's getting rich off free software.
So You Want to Earn Money with Open Source
I earned 0 Euros from maintaining OSS software …

Making money from Open Source Software: How we do it?
How we make money from open source software with RavenDB: dual licensing, AGPL, support reduction, and treating OSS like a commercial product.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.
MetaMask: Where your money lives
Buy, trade, earn, and spend, all from one app you control.

Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...


Money, Money, Money - Writing software, in a rich (wo)man's world by Russell Keith-Magee
How to Make Money from Open Source Platforms - Linux.com
John Mark Walker is the Open Source Ecosystems Manager at Red Hat. I never thought I’d have to write this article in 2015. By now, I thought it would be self-evident how to derive revenue from open source software platforms. But alas, no. Despite the fact that the success of open source software is unparalleled and […]

Open source is sometimes played within the magic circle. When money enters, it becomes a different game. When switching from one game to another, participants often feel betrayed. So, know which one you want to play and be clear about the rules! blog.zaratan.world/p/the-magic-circle
The Magic Circle
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