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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Camilo Polymeris  wrote:

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>> I understand that a lot of you develop for free software and are passionate

>> at what you do.  But how do you pay the bills?  What do you do for a living?

>>  Are you a student?  Do you do software development just as a hobby, or do

>> you want to make a living doing this kind of work?

>

> I see most of you are in IT, I would have thought there were more

> amateur programmers and some pro musicians, too.

> I am a student. Natural science. Completely unrelated to CS or audio.

> :) My prospective employer probably won't care about OSS, mostly doing

> this for fun.

I'm a professional programmer, working in the VoIP server industry,

although I don't do much OSS development these days. The software we

develop is commercial, but we use some LGPL stuff like ffmpeg, and our

target platforms are Solaris and Linux, and I focus mainly on media

streaming solutions for VoIP. Ultimately, though, I will be changing

careers to that of a professional composer and get away from the

software development :-) That will become closer to reality once I

finish my certification via Berklee.
--

Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com

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