>tfw linux users are to intelligent too sell software too

>>59782576
i make BSD software and get paid for it. you are just doing it wrong or your software is just worthless

>>59782576
get out, get tanned and apply for a microsoft position if you want to make shekels

>>59782576
I work for a company that makes hardware and sells Linux software licenses for software running on that hardware.

What if somebody pays you to create software because they want to use it, and they don't care whether or not it's gpl'd?
What then?
Huh?
Morons.

>>59782576
99.9% of linux users have never written a line of code

most will never even make a bash script let alone a whole program.

>>59782866
Wouldn't that be like Adobe and Microsoft?

>>59782576
>>59782820
>>59782882
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>59782983
Actually, I'm referring to busybox/Linux, so no, fuck off stallman.

>>59782576
Fucking retard, do it like the Xchat dev.
Make GPL software and then sell Windiws builds.

There is no reason to give away your program fr free.

>>59782576
let me give you an example brainlet,
"My expenses" is an open source android app, and it has also paid features. If you search for the paid app you'd rather see cracked apks instead of "building instructions" since it's too hard. People who wants to use your software will pirate your app no matter if it's open or not

>>59782576
Release or source code as a tarball fulfilling the gpl requirement then sell people a service plan that includes a compiled version of your software