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click here. RE: How to live from open source. by WorknMan on Sun
22nd Jul 2012 18:59 UTC in reply to "How to live from open
source." Member since:  At the end of the day the developers
need to bring money home, and there is none to be had when your
software is 100% available for the others to take, and you
cannot sell services on top of it.  This is a good point, as it
is likely that Sparrow would never have existed as an open
source app, because you're not going to make money like that by
selling support services, or coffee mugs. And hey, not everybody
wants to work for free.  And anyway, I recently read that an
open source email app (Thunderbird) has had its development
stopped recently, except for bug fixes and security updates.
Will anybody fork it and continue working on it? Who knows. But
really, how many open source projects have died on the vine
because the developer got bored with it, or didn't have the time
to work on it anymore.  The poi