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Yes.

Join the Joel on Software community (http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz) would be my advice.

Don't count on donations is my other advice :-)

Selling consumer software: very tough, but can be done by one individual.

Selling to businesses: very specialized, much easier to make your first $100K, but you can't be a one-man shop.

That's what I gather. I think for the consumer, they want most things to be free -- and if they're not free, there's always going to be a crack/keygen available for download.

Sell service instead. Like, if you develop a game, sell online access to maps which cannot be downloaded, but can be used once connected. Maintaining accounts is much easier than maintaining keys which can be cracked.

"SaaS" seems to be the buzzword. Thanks for reminding me about it, I'll consider some possible implementations.

Well, since the question is, "Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs?", I thought this approach would be excluded... But it's true that selling services is pretty much the absolute anti-piracy tactic.

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