open source/getting paid

[Joe Crawford]

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 09:45:28AM -0800, Arnz Varnz wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me? First let me say hats off to all the people in
> the trenches who kept open source alive as I was able to get an
> operating system and tons of software that is better than the stuff I
> could not afford.  But how does one who wants to do this sort of thing
> pay the rent? By service? That seems not enough.

ESR covers this issue a bit in the Magic Cauldron...
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/

BTW - the book "Cathedral & the Bazaar" is pretty damn good.

And ESR will be in SoCal - up in L.A. - real soon now...

> Eric Raymond's LA visit has now been scheduled for next Friday and Saturday:
>
> http://lalugs.org/#events
> http://www.cosmoseng.com/erics_pa.htm

Hope this is of interest to someone.

	- Joe
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