On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Camilo Polymeris <[email protected]> wrote: >> I understand that a lot of you develop for free software and are passionate >> at what you do. But how do you pay the bills? What do you do for a living? >> Are you a student? Do you do software development just as a hobby, or do >> you want to make a living doing this kind of work? > > I see most of you are in IT, I would have thought there were more > amateur programmers and some pro musicians, too. > I am a student. Natural science. Completely unrelated to CS or audio. > :) My prospective employer probably won't care about OSS, mostly doing > this for fun.
I'm a professional programmer, working in the VoIP server industry, although I don't do much OSS development these days. The software we develop is commercial, but we use some LGPL stuff like ffmpeg, and our target platforms are Solaris and Linux, and I focus mainly on media streaming solutions for VoIP. Ultimately, though, I will be changing careers to that of a professional composer and get away from the software development :-) That will become closer to reality once I finish my certification via Berklee. -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
