How do free software developers make money?

I have this question in mind for a very long time. How do free software developers make money to live? They spend a lot of time and effort on something that they'll never sell.

I feel, all Open Source developers are development lovers. Nobody forced them to code for free.. They're just looking for the honor of contributing on the Open Source community and of course they're trying to satisfy their need by coding a good piece of software. An Open Source developer is an unsatisfied user so he try to fix the code to satisfy his needs and share it with the community.

At this moment, I could remember one famous quote.

But…. Again the same question! How do free software developers make money to live?

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