Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread tzahi ml
Hi All, I am in need of assistance. I am currently working as a freelancer coding stuff in a company. However, although I am making good living, this does not scale much (and promotion is out of the question :) ). Anyway, I am looking for ways to scale. One of the ideas that were given to me is

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, tzahi ml wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:40 +0300 From: tzahi ml tzahi...@gmail.com To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Question about how to make a living from open source Hi All,I am in need of assistance. I am currently working as a

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread David Suna
On 09/18/2014 02:56 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, tzahi ml wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:40 +0300 From: tzahi ml tzahi...@gmail.com To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Question about how to make a living from open source Hi All,I am in need

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread tzahi ml
It appears not to sound that fun when you tell it like it is. I am just closing a startup, not too keen to start a new one right away. A startup has no business sense. However, I was hoping there is a middle ground, a business sense and a certain risk. The current idea I have is to freelance

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread Aviram Jenik
It's not clear (at least, not to me) what you're asking. You want something that has no risk, does not require too much hard work, but pays well. And then you want to further restrict the search space of this invisible universe to open source only. How is that middle ground? Decide which of

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread tzahi ml
Hi Aviram, As it is an email, it is difficult to convey details and it can be confusing. I am not restricting anything, but since this is a linux/open source mailing list I asked it with this subject. I worked on proprietary code for the last 8 years so I have no problem with proprietary or open

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2014-09-18 Thread Matanya
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