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> If even I – with my fortunate position – can’t make a comfortable living working on open source, then how is anyone else supposed to make it work? If living
by sequoia 7y ago
> If even I – with my fortunate position – can’t make a comfortable living working on open source, then how is anyone else supposed to make it work?
If living comfortably is Feross's goal, why not get a job? This is a high profile programmer in one of the highest demand, highest-programmer-wage places in the world. What am I missing?
- whyrusleeping 7y agoFeross could easily get a job, but the point is that he wants open source to work. So much of everything you do every day depends on open source code, and every open source dev I know says its an utter shit show. The alternative is Feross gets a job, and everyone invents their own stuff in-house, and we end up with 'open source' that is just what profitable companies want to have as open source. The set of things companies decide to open source is not a good overlap with the set of software that should exist.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoWorking for someone else is a last resort for some of us once all of our other ambitions have failed.