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First, take your GTFO and stuff it where it belongs, and second, this isn't some BS.
If you want to pay for play, don't open source it. If you want to get paid and open source it, then accept and ask for donations. But if you pay for play only your open source, and the software is any good, it's going to get forked... by someone who will either do it fully for free, or also asking for donations.
Go clean yourself up now that I'm done with you.
Open source can make money. You can charge for training and customer support. You can also charge for binary downloads, while keeping the source code public. While some can compile it themselves without paying you, most will just pay to avoid the hassle of it.
People with your way of thinking are what causes the year of desktop Linux to never arrive.
@PseudoSpock @IverCoder that is not true, I work in an open source compagny (since 2016, BSD-3 for most of our works).
We sell support, training, dev,... expertise. And that is only ONE example.
Other open source compagnies use dual licensing to make money for example, other provide paid binaries or SaaS...
You can open source and make money
Cool, but the comment you're replying to is not talking about making money from open source in general, it is talking specifically about "pay for play". Meaning, in my reading at least, the kind of software which users cannot use without paying for.