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Many organizations writing open source stuff are hiring people to work full-time. You might not earn as much as other places, but just because they are non-profits doesn’t mean they don’t have money or an income.

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Yup, that’s true, and I am always open to and looking for new opportunities, but that also requires them to be interested in hiring me - not a trivial feat, especially in the current job market.

I’d also wager that the number of job positions writing OSS for organizations like that is much lower than proprietary job positions.

But you know what, I’ll go shop around a little in my free time the next week or two. I’d love for (more of) my work to be publicly accessible and not locked up in a proprietary codebase.

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