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Hello Everyone, I will love to ask you this important question What does the richest man on earth does for a living? He sells software for a living. Today I will be sharing with you software licensed under the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that could make you some money perhaps make you rich. This software are gives you the freedom to copy, modify, and distribute it (with friends and families), but not sell or claim ownership of it. You might be thinking at this point how would you make money from a software that is initially freely available and cannot be sold? This where the business model of Open Source Software comes to play, at least there are four basic ways of making money with open source software namely: Support: By offering paid support for software licensed under open source could make you tons of money, I once worked with a firm who make a living providing support for Moodle installation and management in a school in UK, the school decided to run online course...

Introducing Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) These are software that gives you the liberty to use, copy, study, modify, and distribute it in any way and any form. Importantly the source code is made available for anyone to view and modify to and make it better, in contrast to proprietary software, where the underlying source code is usually hidden from the users. Benefits of FOSS The benefits of using FOSS can include decreasing software costs, increasing security and stability (especially in regard to malware), protecting privacy, and giving users more control over their own hardware. Free, open-source operating systems such as Linux and descendants of BSD are widely utilized today, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones (e.g. Android), and other devices. Free software licenses and open-source licenses are used by many software packages. ( Wikipedia ) Business of FOSS Its unbelievable that the underlying concept of FOSS is a business Model, you mig...