Cesar D. Rodas

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.

At this moment Im posting my code on phpclasses.org hosting, because this site offer me a free repository, with forums, blogs, email alerts to users of any change, visitors (this site have 481640 subscribed users for now).

Also post to phpclasses.org has more benefits, they have the PHP Programming Innovation award with many prizes. Actually I’ve got Two Books, One downloadable copy of Roadsend PHP Compiler, A magazine subscription. And also your class(project), your name, and your page became more popular.

PhpClasses Award:

This award is an initiative meant to provide recognition to the authors that contribute with the most innovating classes.

In the beginning of every month the nominees are announced on the vote page.

In the following month, the authors of the most voted classes may win prizes provided by the following sponsors: IP2Location, Human Profile, ActiveState, Codegear, NuSphere, Zend, VS.PHP, PHP Architect, O’Reilly, SAMS, Packt.

“Remember that Free Software is a matter of freedom, not prize, when you hear Free software you should think in Free speech instead of free Software” Richard Stallman.

Talking about others think, I live in Paraguay, a little country from south America, this country is not well known for its technology and the payment to technology’s work. I am 19 years old and my resume is Great, great enough for work In technology, I’m well pay, I’m a assistant professor of the National University of Asunción, and I work as Freelancer for an American project. All that is not because I am a genius, because I am not, I am only a normal guy who share the code.
And If I can benefits writing Free Softwares, I think you will have more than I without a doubt.
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