Lukas Kahwe Smith has an awesome post titled "Open
Source is not making enough rich people richer" .
Indeed, there is much talk that the VC's , the Investors and
different others aren't seeing the big money fast enough,
according to them that is.
Does that mean that the open source industry is going bad ? Does
that mean you can't make a living when working in the Open Source
industry ?
Absolutely not, as he points out there are uncountable people gaining a good living with Open Source, developers working on the different projects as their day job, system administrators managing open source platforms. We are helping out customers to implement Open Source and Free Software. And there are numerous other Drupal, Mysql, Xen, shops out there. Some have their own open source products and create a business on top of …
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