You know Ariz, I really think it's an age thing. If you look at the guys who set up Facebook, Myspace, OpenDNS.... they're all in their early- to mid-twenties.
I guess once you hit 30+ and you still haven't struck it rich, you kind of settle down into a niche. Many of my colleagues are actually older than me... "retired" hackers as it were... and their hobbies are things like hacking vacuum-tube amplifiers and stuff. :-P On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hehehe, that's hilarious. perhaps it would really end up like you've grown > out of it or maybe by raising the bar, among other things. > > others would simply use their idle times creating their startup instead of > immediately contributing code to F/OSS projects. Although they would still > contribute to F/OSS projects they've used on their startups but only after > they've turn themselves into multi-millionaires (if not billionaires) in > their late 20s or early 30s. > > but i think the best thing that would happen is if you can monetize the open > source project you've initiated similar to WordPress/Automattic which have a > current valuation between $150M - $300M. > > and if you're going to try and imitate their success, please don't start > creating another blogging software :) .. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
