> > > > +1 > > > > > > Who says there is no money to be made? I am a living counter-example. > > > > > > > good to know and hear about it , may god Saraswati and Lakshmi endow you > > with more > > > > > > Thank you for your kind blessings. The Goddess is mighty. > > > > > I have been programming with Open Source software since 1995. > > > > > > > were you using any other email id to post on mailing lists then , is > there > > a proof of your claim ? > > > > > I felt a little silly, having to "prove this claim". Yet, I did. > I used to be the Webmaster of ei.org and a Perl programmer, in 1995. > > http://www.hughes.com.au/hypermail/msql-list/199612/0046.html
No there is nothing to feel bad or silly about it , thanks for sharing now we all know you better as a person and from where you are coming :-) . There is one more thing about this market place where people try to bs so its good to ask when in doubt and cut through bs. > > All my money has come from participating in the Open Source bazaar. > > > Salaries well above Rs. 1 crore / year are not unheard of in the Open > > > Source world, > > > > > > can you cite some examples about people who you know of in this category > ? > > > > > LOTs of them. Yet, I won't mention any names in order to keep their > privacy. > yes i understand , any public figures who took this path i would be interested in learning about them. We are all from India. We made it to the exotic shores of USA, learned to > program in Perl, on top of Linux, and Apache, and mySQL, etc. > We all made $200,000+ / year. We were driven home in company limousines, > served delicious lunches, received massages, champagne etc. > agree this is a different class and case to look into .People who get day jobs because of there free and open source software skills . > And yet, I hear that those benefits have not quite trickled down to India. > The world is up for some shaking upping. > Don't try to emulate success stories of the past. It's pointless. > Write your own success story. > cool , good to know you better as a person , where are you based out of ? -Satya Satyaakam.net <http://satyaakam.net/> | fossevents.in | fossacademy.org _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
