By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand our Terms of Service. I’m currently a student Applied Information Technology and we do most of our programming in C and Java. I was wondering how can I as a developer, make money with open source. I know there is the story of give support, or provide services, but I’m not a sysadmin and I don’t like sysadmin work. So my actual question is: Is there money to be made with the development of Open Source software, and how? This answer summarises many of the answers to the following questions, along with some additional research and opinion. Open source can be a viable primary or auxiliary business model, both directly through specific project work developets indirectly through the acquisition of skills, experience and how open source developers make money quora. There may also be additional, motivations; the satisfaction of producing software that is useful to others, th...