Re:Leaving Mozilla
by mathattack on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @05:26PM
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There's a decent market for selling consulting consulting services on top of open source technology. Being the expert on applying an open source technology to solve specific problems comes with a decent rate card.
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Re:Leaving Mozilla
by davidbanham on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @07:52PM
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You're still selling your labour rather than a product, though. It's possible to be well off doing that, but basically impossible to become ludicrously rich.
He didn't say his goal is to become ludicrously rich. He said he has ideas that Mozilla can't and shouldn't provide resources to realize, so some for profit company would work better for it.
Re:Leaving Mozilla
by mathattack on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:00AM
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True. There is a potential multiplier when you're selling a product or money, rather than time. It's a matter of priorities and risk appetite.
http://undo-software.com/undodb/ is a rival which i have marketed at me on linkedin frequently