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As of yet I'm a student (nearly finished with my masters in CS), so most of my work is either research related code or things I write in my spare time. I mostly
by merijnv 16y ago
As of yet I'm a student (nearly finished with my masters in CS), so most of my work is either research related code or things I write in my spare time. I mostly fund my activities from my part-time sys admin job (which is rather low intensity, so I can do some coding during slow times.)
I plan on starting on a PhD when I'm done, and basically continue like this. How I continue to fund this after the protective bubble of academia I haven't really considered yet, but that's a few years of for now anyway.
- rbarooah 16y agoThanks for being so open. Like you, I would love to just hack on things that make the world a better place. Unlike you I don't have a protective environment from which to do so. I have to fund myself somehow. It would be a lot easier to do this if people were generally willing to give a few dollars for things that were arguably far more valuable to them than a cup of coffee, but sadly the 'software should be free' meme undermines that. I think that a general acceptance that software is worth a little bit rather than free would allow more people to hack for the benefit of the world. I think the free model benefits those who are well funded from other sources, further concentrating power in the hands of the well off. Obviously I'd like a unicorn as well, but maybe two wishes is too much to ask for.