Ideally I would prefer to sustain myself from one of these projects. There are a lot of projects that are successful. Sure they aren't making a fortune, but they enough money to support their maintainers.
but they enough money to support their maintainers.
Are you sure?
I haven't done a survey but my guess is that the Open Source developers being supported solely by their projects are a very small fraction. But best of luck becoming one of the select few.
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Ideally I would prefer to sustain myself from one of these projects. There are a lot of projects that are successful. Sure they aren't making a fortune, but they enough money to support their maintainers.
but they enough money to support their maintainers.
Are you sure?
I haven't done a survey but my guess is that the Open Source developers being supported solely by their projects are a very small fraction. But best of luck becoming one of the select few.