Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
I've been working on VideoLAN (VLC, x264, other...) for most of my professional life.<p>For a long time, I had other jobs, working at startups around video, and doing VLC at nights and weekends and holidays.<p>And now, I built a couple of companies around Open Source multimedia, where we do consulting, integration, custom development around software, applications development, licensing, support and so on.<p>Those companies are now paying around 25 FTE. It's not too bad, but not impressive either...<p>The employees are working most of their time on improvements of the open source software, working for clients is a minority of their time.<p>But I've worked a lot, and by a lot, I really mean a fuckton... And the rewards are not big.