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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by wallflower on Monday March 03, 2008 @02:42PM (#128251)
Bram Cohen (who supports his family off of grateful BitTorrent users) is the exception. A lot of programmers are paid to work on open source (however, they are mostly employed by large Open Source advocates like IBM).
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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by csmajorfive on Monday March 03, 2008 @03:25PM (#128292)
I'm not so sure he supported his family on donations for very long. BitTorrent turned into a pretty well funded venture (of which he is chief scientist) a while ago.
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