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Re:Text-to-CAD by specialist on Friday December 22, 2023 @07:24AM (#38733471)
Oxide & Friends had some recent episodes about keeping the lights on when working on open source. IIRC titled something like "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns."

TLDR: FOSS devs still need to eat, so we'd better come up with a sustainable biz model, so we can keep working on FOSS.

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Re:Text-to-CAD by lrvick on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:57PM (#38737290)
My play is I sell my advice and experience, and find companies willing to pay me to write open source software to meet their needs.

I have built a security firm that only audits code/ architecture and writes open source code and it can generate enough income to support a few people in a way I feel good about.

I try to put people before profit and that is probably why I am not cut out to be a billionaire.

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