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.For a long time, I had other jobs, working at startups around video, and doing VLC at nights and weekends and holidays.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.Those companies are now paying around 25 FTE. It's not too bad, but not impressive either...The employees are working most of their time on improvements of the open source software, working for clients is a minority of their time.But I've worked a lot, and by a lot, I really mean a fuckton... And the rewards are not big.