What are the most profitable ways for a programmer to make money from open source code?
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The canonical way to earn money from open source is to offer customization and support. You provide the software as-is for free, and offer value-added materials like manuals, training, and custom modifications for a price. The theory is that once written, the code has no marginal cost, but the other products and services do.\n\nThe most common open-source license is GNU, and you can legally repackage and resell any code released under the GNU license provided you make the full source code available and release it under the same license -- which means that you have no recourse if someone else takes your distribution, repackages it, and redistributes it at a slightly lower price. Really, the place to make money is in customization and other consulting work, not from the software itself.
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I do something similar and I make money. Go here and see http://www.webspawner.com/users/enterdataathome/
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I use hotscripts.com for a large majority of the stuff that I design. Some of the scripts are paid, but most of the scripts are open source and free..........
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The most lucrative way? Launch a website. You don't even really need any technical skill. Just an interesting topic, a bit of writing ability, and a blog. Though having your own site and some decent web page editing software (and of course, some regularly-changing content that people want to read and re-visit) will give you more flexibility.\n\nThe following specific options assume you've got a website in place...\n\n1) Google AdSense. Note that you've got to have a functional webiste OR a Blogger account (which is owned by Google) to get approved for AdSense. How to actually earn SIGNIFICANT money is outside the scope of a simple Yahoo answer here, but just know that there are sites earning thousands PER DAY with AdSense.\n\n2) ClickBank. There are plenty of affiliate programs out there, but eBooks offer the highest commissions (because of the low overhead). Typically 50% to 80%. I regularly get checks in the mail (every two weeks) averaging a few hundred a month. And that's without doing heavy promotion!\n\nClickbank and AdSense also work well together. For example I have my site set so that when AdSense cannot figure out what ads to display based on the keywords on a page, my Clickbank banners display instead.\n\n3) An affiliate clearing house. Instead of signing up for a bunch of different affiliate programs and then having to check and tweak your performance in all of them, use a large affiliate clearing house and get unified reports. I like Commission Junction (some of my favorite vendors are there).
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If you can truly solve peoples problems with your software you can get 6 digits (even in oklahoma).  You will get paid what you are worth.  If you are fast, well organized and accurate you can get jobs out more quickly and on lump sum jobs that means bonus!\n\nI would also say that may programming slaves who implement others logic probally make $50,000 (including insurance etc) just to be code monkeys.\n\nDont make a choice for the money.  decide if you like the logic and problem solving of programming.  remember there is much that is tedious in programming too.
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The Web offers tremendous opportunities for those who know how to harness it. You hear of stories of people who earn thousands if not millions of dollars from doing business on Web. While there are many scams (same way in the traditional business world), there are various ways you can legitimately make money on the Web.\n\nHere are the main business models you can adopt:\n\n1. Sell products on the Web - Big boys like Amazon or Lillian Vernon online catalog or smaller businesses like BigKidsVideo.com or Candle4Less.com all sell products on the Web. \n\nYou can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as Yahoo Stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like eBay\n\n2. Information Delivery. Others such as About.com or PowerHomeBiz.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:\n\na. Advertising - whether by joining banner ad networks such as Tribal Fusion, BurstMedia or Fastclick and display the banners on their site; or through contextual advertising such as Google Adsense or Intellxt\n\nBanner ad networks:\nBurst Media http://www.burstmedia.com\nFastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com\nAdvertising.com. http://www.advertising.com\nTribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com \n\nContextual Advertising Networks:\nGoogle Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/... \nYahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/ \nIntellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm \nQuigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm\nIndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com \nCommission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com/solutions/optimized_ad...\n\nb. Affiliate Programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined).\n\nCommission Junction http://www.cj.com\nClickbank http://www.clickbank.com\nLinkshare http://www.linkshare.com \n\n\nc. Paid online content. Hoovers.com or WebmasterWorld.com Supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information\n\nd. Content licensing and syndication. Some publishers such as the Associated Press get paid every time their content is published elsewhere\n\n3. Through income opportunities on the Web such as paid surveys - they typically won't earn you much, but can give you a few cash\n\nPinecone Research http://www.pineconeresearch.com\nGreenField Online http://www.greenfieldonline.com \nHarris Poll Online http://www.harrispollonline.com  \nBuzzBack http://www.buzzback.com  \nSurveySite http://www.surveysite.com \nSurveySavvy http://www.surveysavvy.com\nSurvey Spot http://www.surveyspot.com/\nhttp://www.internetpaidsurveys.com/\n\nYou may want to read the following books:\n\n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start\n\nHow to Earn Money on the Web\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol122/earn.htm\nEarning Money from Surveys http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol121/onlinesurvey.htm
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Make your own website to earn some money.\n\nWhy work for someone else?
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there are many ways to make money online. But there are no shortcuts to making money online. if there was...everyone would be doing it ...and that would take the profit out of it.\nSelling on auction sites is profitable...buy low sell high\nhttp://www.ebay.com/\nThe key to this would be promotion...promote your auctions...if you are trying to sell crafts promote your auctions on crafters forums etc...\n\nadvertising...place advertising on your website/blog and promote your site/blog (need about 50,000 to 100,000 visitors per month to make decent money)\nhttps://www.google.com/adsense/\n\nhttp://publisher.yahoo.com/\nthere are many more\n\nCreate and sell T-shirts with this site\nhttp://www.goodstorm.com/participate\n\ncreate and sell something original that people want!\n\n"D"
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There is an amount of money that can be earned by doing web development.   The amount that you can earn depends on what it is that you do.  The different aspects are:\n   - graphic development\n   - page design\n   - basic html coding\n   - complex server-side programming\n   - customization of design templates\n   - selling/reselling hosting services\n   - web site management\nEach of these functions would pay a different amount of money.\n\nSince your question was a little ambiguous I'll have to give you some more.  If you are going to sell something on your own web site then your profit will be based on any advertising revenue or ecommerce revenue generated on your site.
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The Web offers tremendous opportunities for those who know how to harness it. You hear of stories of people who earn thousands if not millions of dollars from doing business on Web. While there are many scams (same way in the traditional business world), there are various ways you can legitimately make money on the Web.\n\nTo answer your question, it depends on what you want to do, what you want to achieve with your site, what you can do, and how much resources you have. If you have access to cheap products that you can sell for a significant profit, then an ecommerce business is for you. If you make your own products, then ecommerce is for you. If you are a programmer, you can create a software and offer it for sale on the web. You can also create your own applications and develop your own site's programming. \n\nHere are the main business models you can adopt:\n\n1. Sell products on the Web - Big boys like Amazon or Lillian Vernon online catalog or smaller businesses like BigKidsVideo.com or Candle4Less.com all sell products on the Web. \n\nYou can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as Yahoo Stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like eBay\n\n2. Information Delivery. Others such as About.com or PowerHomeBiz.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:\n\na. Advertising - whether by joining banner ad networks such as Tribal Fusion, BurstMedia or Fastclick and display the banners on their site; or through contextual advertising such as Google Adsense or Intellxt\n\n1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services. \n\nBurst Media http://www.burstmedia.com\nFastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com\nAdvertising.com. http://www.advertising.com\nTribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com \n\n2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system. \n\nGoogle Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/... \nYahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/ \nIntellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.ht... \nQuigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm... \nIndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com \nCommission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com/solutions/optimized_ad...\n\n3. Sell advertising for your site directly. This is admittedly a more difficult route for a small business site wanting to earn advertising revenues. But hey, as they say: "no pain, no gain!" \n\nb. Affiliate Programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined)\n\nc. Paid online content. Hoovers.com or WebmasterWorld.com Supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information\n\nd. Content licensing and syndication. Some publishers such as the Associated Press get paid every time their content is published elsewhere
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There are many websites where you can contribute and get some money in return. I am not sure of your area of eapertise so can't say much. Just in case you are a programmer and can contribute significantly then one of such sites is www.devx.com which pays you for writing tips and articles. There are many such in different domains.
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What I'm about to recommend is not really a job but one way to make some extra income from your home Internet.\n\nYou can try to write niche content and make some money via Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network. Both are pay per click programs. Check out this case study https://www.google.com/adsense/askthebuilder It's about Askthebuilder.com earning nearly $30,000 a month with Google Adsense.\n\nCreate sites via free hosting. This way you need not invest any money. Just your valuable time to create websites. See one of my profitable site at http://www.wareprise.com \n\nYou may not get checks almost immediately but with the right methods and hard work, it's definitely a good source of passive income which will come sooner or later.\n\nIf you need more details, there are some good information and articles from this site. http://earncash.50webs.com
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If you setup advertising or an affiliate site you can earn money.\n\nCheck out\n\nhttp://www.linkshare.com\nhttp://www.cj.com\nhttp://www.shareasale.com
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You can find 15 waysto make money at -\n\nhttp://www.cbmall.com/15ways.asp?storefront=rguptaa
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The Web offers tremendous opportunities for those who know how to harness it. You hear of stories of people who earn thousands if not millions of dollars from doing business on Web. While there are many scams (same way in the traditional business world), there are various ways you can legitimately make money on the Web.\n\nHere are the main business models you can adopt:\n\n1. Sell products on the Web - Big boys like Amazon or Lillian Vernon online catalog or smaller businesses like BigKidsVideo.com or Candle4Less.com all sell products on the Web. \n\nYou can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as Yahoo Stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like eBay\n\n2. Information Delivery. Others such as About.com or PowerHomeBiz.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:\n\na. Advertising - whether by joining banner ad networks such as Tribal Fusion, BurstMedia or Fastclick and display the banners on their site; or through contextual advertising such as Google Adsense or Intellxt\n\nJoin an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services. \n\nBurst Media http://www.burstmedia.com\nFastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com\nAdvertising.com. http://www.advertising.com\nTribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com \n\nParticipate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system. \n\nGoogle Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/... \nYahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/ \nIntellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.ht... \nQuigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm... \nIndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com \nCommission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com\n\nb. Affiliate Programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined)\n\nc. Paid online content. Hoovers.com or WebmasterWorld.com Supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information\n\nd. Content licensing and syndication. Some publishers such as the Associated Press get paid every time their content is published elsewhere
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Work! That's the only hard way u can earn money. There's no other sure way. Z shortcuts often lead to losses more than anything else. Bt I respect yr concern, and here's help.\n\nI dnt know who u are, and what u can do. Because for you to earn little rounds, depends on what u can do. Try asking yourself these questions: \n\nWhat can you produce/make/invent (any type of good or service) that you can sell for some money?\n\nCan you baby-sit?\n\nCan you cook pastries and sell on the streets?\n\nCan you sing or play a musical instrument for some money?\n\nThere are simpler ways, but I wonder if you'll do them: \nBeg\nRob\nSell your a.s.s.\n\n(Sorry, nt wanted to offend you... but u see, money doesn't fall from the skies!)
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Please ignore all the disgusting websites under this post.\n\n\nThe best ways to make money online are:\n\nMerchant accounts: Buy in bulk from retailers or bargains in your local area and sell online for more. Some places get over stocked with books they cant sell or movies and decide to sell them very cheap. Many people check the book numbers on a cell phone with a friend in places like half price books to get a good sale. Its very common to find university books at such places in good condition that can be sold for double online.\n\n\nPay per click Programs:\nIf you can successfully setup an active website or blog that gets many hits signup to pay per click programs. See: http://www.jimmyr.com/Make_Money_With_Google_Adsense.php\nDynamically made sites are best, such as forums, because people post there and you dont really need to add content, people add it for you. The more they post the more pages are made with your ads and the more likely the pages will be found by some arbitrary keyword in a search engine.\n\n\nDon't listen to any pyramid scam websites, sites that ask you to fill out forms, or basically anything that charges you initial membersip.