Everyone here is bent by the $500k, but nobody is mentioning working for yourself can lead to less autonomy as you have to take on lame projects just to pay the

Everyone here is bent by the $500k, but nobody is mentioning working for yourself can lead to less autonomy as you have to take on lame projects just to pay the bills, or the product your customers actually will pay for is not he one you want to build. Ideal autonomy is getting corporate patronage to mange your open source project.