How to make a big buck from open source software?
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customizing the software for users in a certain kind of business or providing software maintenance.\n\nthose would be the 2 areas that seem useful.
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1. Find items to sell on Half.com. If you have used items in very good condition, you can make good money there.\n\n2. Try making something to sell at CafePress.com or Payloadz.com. \n\n3. Create a web site or blog, make it really popular, and sign up with Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher, or an affiliate network [like CommissionJunction.com or Linkshare] so you can place ads on your site.\n\nYour best bet is to go the whole *building a site+ signing up with an affiliate program* route. If you manage to build a very popular site and place ads on it, you can make a lot of money. However, keep in mind, that this option takes a lot of effort and time, so if you decide to go with it, don't expect to be reaping big money in six weeks. It might take up to a year before you see anything. The key, though, is persistence.\n\nGood luck!
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sell the code to a big company (Micro$oft comes to mind) and arrange for royalties in the contract.
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Software personnel get paid near 100k in us currency in the US. I'm talking about Software engineers even some Quality Assurance Specialist. I can sell Avon and make $5000 US in 3 months. I can design a website in 30 days for $5000. I can sell flowers on a part-time basis in a 4 month span (Valentines Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Stand by a hospital and a few churches) for $5000. Think hard about what you are worth.
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get a "blog package" most of them are open source
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Read emails \nhttp://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?rameybl\nnot a get rich but i've made some real money with it
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Just send it to me so you don't have to ask anyone else. Or you could put it into a high interest-earning CD or buy some stock or invest in a business idea that you feel will be a good venture.
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Depends on your how advanced you are, and how much control are you willing to take, I myself, prefer anything that's opensource so I can mess around right now I am using this one free BSD I found it's pretty fast, and reliable, it doesn't look all that great but who cares.
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My recommendation would be to make a blog.\n\nYou can make money just by telling people your thoughts on various issues. You might want to consider setting up a Newsvine account, where you will earn 90% of the money from advertisers. Go to  http://www.newsvine.com to learn more about THAT service.\n\nThere are other blogging services that allow you to put up ads (using, for example, Google Ads or whatever Yahoo!'s equivalent service is), such as Blogger. Since this is a Google service anyway, they make it extremely easy to make money from blogging. Check it out:\nhttp://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=964\n\nOther suggestions for making money on the 'net:\n- Sell stuff on Google Base ( http://base.google.com/ )\n- Sell your stuff on EBay ( http://www.ebay.com )
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How about selling a "Program" that a person could get to put\nsome idea they have to the public?\nGood luck!
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First, you buy a software development kit and learn the programming language.   Go to school. \n\nThen, come up with a design concept.  \n\nMake every effort to design every feature and option for your software package. \n\nThen make the disks and try to sell them. \n\nAbout 90% of all software development projects never make it in the real world.  I recommend that you get a job, so someone else pays these high development costs.   To get one of these great jobs,  GO TO SCHOOL.
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You can do it programatically, check for open source, but here's one product
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There are plenty of PPC (pay per click) programs. The 2 biggest, I think, are Google & Yahoo!.\n\nA couple free resources – check out the sources box for links:\n\n1) Create a blog pertaining to your field & product\n\n2) Use Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups\n\nAlso, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission. We use ShareASale & pay out $25 to our affiliates once a sale is made & ShareASale takes another $5. $30 a sale is a pretty small price to pay for us. And I'm sure most programs like that allow you to set the commission rate (no point in your commission being half the price of a sale for you!)\n\nI listed a couple of handy sites relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. I hope they’re helpful for you.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Find someone who you really believe in who needs the money for a startup.   Good luck.
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That sounds like a great application, why not hire a programmer at Elance and make some money with your idea?
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This is an interesting question with interesting answers.\n\n- You see some people really dont work for money. They are trying to solve a problem that bugs them and they appreciate people who would help them solve it. This can be one motivation for writing open source stuff.\n\n- Another approach to this to take a hard problem (like say an OS), realise that multiple people have done things that together can be collected into a reasonable solution the same, package the same (obviously add some of your own stuff to that) and then give away the solution for free. Per se, this problem is so complicated that irrespective of what you do, the customers will pay you to help maintain and upgrade the solution. This is getting paid for maintaining the service and not the original solution. This motivates companies like Redhat etc.\n\n- Another approach is that sometime an opensource solution helps a huge corporation and they pay you to make the solution. That way they can access the source code, tune their services to your code and together build a formidable software. IBM used this approach to support Linux and make it work with their DB2 etc.\n\n- Also, a lot of open source stuff gets funded in the later stages via public support since too many people find it useful. Apache foundation is an example that comes to mind\n\n- Also some opensource products get sold out to other corporations and that helps them make more money. JBoss being bought out by Redhat is an example of this\n\n- Some opensource stuff can use display of advertisements to get money.\n\nThese are some things I can think from the top of my head. Hope this helps!
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Get a business plan first. Then, learn to use open source software like OScommerce - loads of tutorial around, finally, grab a cheap hosting. Again loads of them around, most giving tools like cpanel to create your website and installing OScommerce fairly easily. Estimated cost per year $200, estimate time taken 100 hours. Payment is another part though. You will have to choose between many payment gateways like Paypal which cahrge a flat rate and take a percentage of your money