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by jqpabc123 1390 days ago
"Market" implies money, income, trade.

How do you make money from free software? Short answer --- you don't.

There may be a need/desire but there is no real "market" for Open Source.
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bogdanu 1390 days ago
Ideally I would prefer to sustain myself from one of these projects. There are a lot of projects that are successful. Sure they aren't making a fortune, but they enough money to support their maintainers.
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jqpabc123 1389 days ago
but they enough money to support their maintainers.

Are you sure?

I haven't done a survey but my guess is that the Open Source developers being supported solely by their projects are a very small fraction. But best of luck becoming one of the select few.

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