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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by blackrock on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:03PM (#25233747)
Congrats! It’s quite the achievement to sell $200,000 worth of software. But this is only enough to sustain 1 Software Engineer.

Are you able to raise this up to $1 million? Or $10 million?

Or is your niche software forever relegated to $200,000?

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Re:A few ways to make money in FOSS by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:20PM (#25234255)
Those of us involved are not interested in such goals.

Also, we've received much more income than that. Ardour is more than 20 years old at this point, and generating revenue for more than 12 years.

Also, your estimation of how much a software engineer earns would be fairly humorous anywhere except a few major tech centers in a few western nations.

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