Possible to make career in free software? - eviltoast

I’m a computer engineering undergrad in my finals and I really don’t care about applying for jobs, there’s so much competition and I hate just about every one of my classmates. I don’t want to spend hours making shitty bloated proprietary software but 99% of jobs seem to be like that. Is it possible to actually make a career in free software, should I just ditch out of tech and pick something else

  • Lee Duna@lemmy.nz
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    7 months ago

    Possible, but it’s really hard to make a living. Just look at lemmy devs, they’re work totally on this project and rely on donations.