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If money were everything, nobody would be working on opensource. I'd jump at that opportunity. Earning a third or a even a quarter of what I earn now would pay

If money were everything, nobody would be working on opensource. I'd jump at that opportunity. Earning a third or a even a quarter of what I earn now would pay for every single one of my living expenses and even allow a comfortable life. There's no way that salary would be OK for a corporation, but for doing something I truly believe in? It's friggin' great.

jefftk 6y ago
> If money were everything, nobody would be working on opensource. A large majority of hours spent on open source are paid, though. Developers working full-time on open source projects at various large corporations. I was in that category from 2012 to early 2017 working on mod_pagespeed, for example. There are many small labor-of-love open source projects, but large ones are uncommon. > I'd jump at that opportunity. There are definitely people who would be happy to make that trade; I'm not claiming that you're the only one or something like that. Instead, what I'm saying is that there are a lot of people who are willing to take a modest pay cut to work on a public-benefit project like Firefox but aren't willing to take a ~60-75% one. And, further, Mozilla isn't going to be able to make a top-notch browser without hiring many of these people.