8 practical ways to make money with open-source projects.

1) Premium code: (Open-Core)

The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.

However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.

Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )

2) Open SaaS:

Open SaaS allows... See more