Making money Sharing the source…
Monday, June 25th, 2007
It is well known that you can make money writing free softwares, sharing the source, disclaiming the copyright.
But in this case I will speak about my personal experience writing free softwares and getting money directly or indirectly.
First of nothing you don’t need to start or be part of a very very big project for get benefits. I’ve never be part or start a big project, and all my “free software” experience are writing PHP classes and sharing the source, and that’s simplest and take less time than write an Operating system ;), and also has many benefits.
Directly I’ve never got benefits(I mean get paid) yet, But I am planning to… and you will ask me how??… and the answer is a quite simple, with Google-Ads on the sites of my php projects. If the projects are good they will bring visitors to the site by their own and with a few of help of me writing always something new, try to fixed bugs as soon a possible, and publishing in dzone.com, digg.com, meneame.net and others sites. (more…)