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wallflower on March 3, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only...

Bram Cohen (who supports his family off of grateful BitTorrent users) is the exception. A lot of programmers are paid to work on open source (however, they are mostly employed by large Open Source advocates like IBM).

csmajorfive on March 3, 2008 [–]

I'm not so sure he supported his family on donations for very long. BitTorrent turned into a pretty well funded venture (of which he is chief scientist) a while ago.

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