Take money off the table. Keep the economic incentives.

[CreamCat]

When you take money off the table, people who usually come to take money disappear.

No one makes money directly from open-source projects. Yet, people make money around it by being paid for on-going software support.

There is no money on the table for open-source projects, but the economic incentives are still there.

If you regularly attend peer group meeting every week, you don't make money directly from it, but you learn to make money by learning and teaching trade secrets with each other. Again, there are economic incentives with no money on the table.

I like this model of economic growth and human relationship because it is low in risk and therefore is for people who are not stinking rich. This is the model I apply to human relationships and business.

Get rich slowly.

Edited April 6, 2019 by CreamCat