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by mehdim 4356 days ago
You can do both. I will take our example at OAuth.io, we have built an open source daemon for OAuth that solve a problem for developers and we made a startup to sell the service on top. Look what Docker is becoming. Being a startup and contributing to open source are not opposite.

Or you can see even Github that contribute to open source by making a startup to help everybody contribute on open source...

Or Twitter with Bootstrap etc....