i love open source
but its hard to make
money when you give
it away publicly for free

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No need for bait and switch or BSL. 

See Wordpress and automattic. Drupal. So many examples I don’t even need to talk about mysql. Red hat? Etc

yes but i kinda hate the bait and switch nature of COSS and BSL

i think the best way to yhink about it is you only relicense to a poorer license once millions are at stake or smt

Untrue. Have you seen the valuations of opensource companies? You don’t give everything away for free. The free is the distribution and adoption. You can build plenty of success around it

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Gitfish. Gitcoin. @tipdotmd 

There are more but it’s not necessarily the perfect solution for crypto because a lot of opensource projects/their maintainers also are very concerned that crypto is a massive scam. 

And you can’t blame them. 

See https://gist.github.com/torvalds/6faadce34c56d53b2d5352da0c3cd093?permalink_comment_id=5622276

they don't. it's also the perfect problem for crypto to solve (tho hardly anyone is working on it)

i made more $20K from open source, there is some of foundations give the contributors a lot of money

but to now i can’t find a good projects really help devs to make easy money like kaito so for creators

so do you think developers would care about something like this if someone actually built it?

Open source is all about creating an honest and transparent product that people can trust more easily. And if your product delivers real value and makes an impact, you can actually make even more money than closed-source products.