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Dec 25 '22 11:12 utterances-bot

Here is another perspective from a lobste.rs comment:

Now for a little tangent: doesn’t “successful open source developer” feel wrong to say? It does to me. Open source to me is an ethos of freedom, self-empowerment, and fun. There are no “unsuccessful open source developers”… You either write and publish source code for free or you don’t. When I read things like this it immediately strikes me that people really mean “making money with open source software” which translates to “making money working for yourself”. At the end of the day you’re a developer and to virtue signal you’re specifically “an open source developer” just hits weird for me.

The father of the free software movement is not a “successful open source developer”: https://stallmansupport.org/who-is-richard-stallman.html

The author of the most widely used kernel in the world also isn’t: https://linuxtorvalds.com/

These three handsome individuals also: https://sourcehut.org/consultancy/

I feel there’s a major gap growing caused by “enterprise open source”, skewing further what free software was and is about.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html is probably good further reading.

I should probably do more thinking on this.

Dec 25 '22 11:12 orhun

Well written! This is also a dream of mine, but unfortunately without any clout to back to you and having no other way to source an income, this would become near impossible.

I have come across a few people who have made the leap of faith, and they seem to be better off because of it!

I feel like I have the grindset, and have had it for a while, but I think I'll want to see a few more success stories before going the full mile myself. Loved the read though, and I'll be following the blog into the future!