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So much of the hand wringing comes from requiring your passion also support you. I want a tasty dessert topping which is also a floor polish. They are orthogona

So much of the hand wringing comes from requiring your passion also support you. I want a tasty dessert topping which is also a floor polish. They are orthogonal goals. If you are skilled and driven enough to found open source projects (the vast majority of programmers are not), you can get a well-paying tech job, pursue financial independence, and become your own patron, instead of hoping thousands of people throw you their coffee money each month, forever. Then you can work on what you enjoy, on your own terms. Or, you can continue to worry whether your tasty dessert can clean your floors.

graderjs 5y ago
Unfortunately in my experience it's not that straightforward. I have a reasonably good open source portfolio but in my experience companies don't care about that. And it really only comes up often as a negative where companies think oh you got to spend time doing this stuff and then the negative for me is that could be IP conflicts in the contract where they end up owning things and it becomes unspecified so... Not a panacea. So better route for open source people is to somehow monetize it.