Hey All
So, making a few bucks in the F/OSS field.
I have not done it, heck I have not even tried it. All the code I write is out there for public use, with the exception of a few GPL stipulations.
I figure I’ll try the most non-invasive thing I can do — add a donate button to my website.
I’m going to let this roll for a month, and see what it does. My guess is there will be a exponential growth in returns from the run of the mill hacker to the high-profile F/OSS preacher.
Will follow up with my results 
Heck, if you feel like supporting my coffee addiction, hit that cup right below this post to donate
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You could try making money with foss the same way I used to do with proprietary, and now I do with FOSS.
I charge people to write FOSS code. Unless I have a very personal need for software, I don’t write it for gratis, ever. I always charge, period. I only take contracts where it specifies that this is not a work for hire, that I am using previous code I have written, thus this is a derivative of my other works, and that I may use and release the code in future projects.
While I typically do not use the entire project in my next projects, bits get used round about all of my projects, and all of them are FOSS licensed. If a client decides to distribute they may. If someone comes to me with the distributed code asking for changes, I’m more than willing to oblige, for a fee, never for free.
So far it’s working just fine.