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How do products like Firefox, OpenOffice.org, MySQL, VLC Media Player, etc., etc. make money with their software? They all are continually building on their platforms and updating along the way, without a clear source of income to pay for it.

How do they monetize being an open-source software? How can you make open-source fastlane?
 
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