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by vvanders 3709 days ago
Does good will feed my family? Will my landlord let me pay the rent in GitHub stars?

Or in the words of The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure

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It may not directly feed your family, but it can certainly improve the world you live in and that includes your own private habitat. Small improvements might not be worth giving away because the effect on your life will be negligible, but bigger ones should be (at least once you've obtained financial independence through them, there's no longer a good excuse not to).
$1.37M in sales(http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/company-search.ht...). They sure can feed their families.

And, yes, you're right: good does not feed your family.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/19/d3/b0/19d3b0b76...

Good luck feeding your family with the sales of a proprietary compression algorithm.
This company did exactly that for a long time http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm