Monetizing open source projects is important to project sustainability. I feel like ranting about this today so I thought I'd throw these thoughts on the internet. I'd like to preface this whole rant by saying this is just my opinion and in my experience and I am no expert. Open source enthusiast seem hesitant to discuss monetization. They act like it will sully their principles and that every project should be a charity work. Meanwhile, open source skeptics don't believe that open source is possible of making money. How could you possibly sell something that you give away for free? I find that the strongest, most complex open source projects have some commercial element to them and I think that's how it should work. Expecting developers to build and maintain software without any financial support or by begging for scraps on Ko-Fi is short-sighted at best. Conversely, selling open source is very possible. It requires a different mindset than your typical "make pro...