Originally posted by chris
1). Hire developers to create applications and such; make money with servicing & support for your software.

2). Accept generous donations.
1) what about us people who think our product is perfect the way it is, and really dont want to train our employees that dont want to be trained in the "newer" or "better" software

2) most of the people i have come close with, really was open about their personal donation "ethics",

(but i hear that Bloodshed Dev C++, works on donations, i dont know how they do that! lol, its a great piece of software though)