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by ipaddr 1076 days ago
Thousands of people make a living off open source and many are interesting products. Going commercial makes it easier to make a living. If making a living on open source is privileged, that privilege comes from hard work and some luck.
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> Thousands of people make a living off open source

Meanwhile, there are an estimated 26.9 million professional software engineers in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...