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A comment on Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open Source?.

Re:Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open... by brezelgoring on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:51PM (#33135903)
You can sell other things. In my experience OSS is not the end but the start of projects around here - you see a project in use (say, a reporting tool for networking products) and you make it better, but this time you sell that.

Want the better tool? I sell the patches and maintenance, and after some prudential time, I release it into the wild.

Not exactly the Red Hat method but it's a method for sure.

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Re:Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open... by paydevs on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:16AM (#33138451)
But isn't this a little bit perverted system? We build a software app or library that has great value for other people and companies and we do not get paid for this but have to find ways around it to get something back. Imagine that would be the case with normal jobs - we go to work at Google without a salary and then have to find ways to pay the bills with helping other with SEO.
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