On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:33 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > > Almost my money came from free software. > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > Who says there is no money to be made? I am a living counter-example. > > > > good to know and hear about it , may god Saraswati and Lakshmi endow you > with more > > Thank you for your kind blessings. The Goddess is mighty. > I have been programming with Open Source software since 1995. > > > > were you using any other email id to post on mailing lists then , is there > a proof of your claim ? > > I felt a little silly, having to "prove this claim". Yet, I did. I used to be the Webmaster of ei.org and a Perl programmer, in 1995. http://www.hughes.com.au/hypermail/msql-list/199612/0046.html > > > All my money has come from participating in the Open Source bazaar. > > Salaries well above Rs. 1 crore / year are not unheard of in the Open > > Source world, > > > can you cite some examples about people who you know of in this category ? > > LOTs of them. Yet, I won't mention any names in order to keep their privacy. We are all from India. We made it to the exotic shores of USA, learned to program in Perl, on top of Linux, and Apache, and mySQL, etc. We all made $200,000+ / year. We were driven home in company limousines, served delicious lunches, received massages, champagne etc. And yet, I hear that those benefits have not quite trickled down to India. The world is up for some shaking upping. Don't try to emulate success stories of the past. It's pointless. Write your own success story. Cheers, - Ashwin. -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
