[groovy2shoes]

My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give. You really nailed that on the head.

As a computer programmer and an open source software enthusiast, believe me when I say that I would love to contribute every line of code I write to open source. Not because of any moral imperative, but simply because I'd love for my work to be widely distributed and used. Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult for a company of one to pull that off (but not impossible -- see Mike Pall, for example, though I have no idea how much money he actually makes (made?) via LuaJIT). If I could work on nothing but my open source software without needing to sacrifice my (already rather modest, really) quality of life, I would tender my letter of resignation in the morning. People don't even want to pay for software when it's not available for free: I have a very hard time imagining that they'd be willing to pay for software that is free.

I just don't see any way I can make it work, at least not right now. Maybe once I've got more of a financial safety net set up, I'll give it a shot or two, but for now I'm content to develop proprietary software for The Man™ in exchange for a monetary salary. I do try to squeeze in bits of open source development wherever/whenever I can, and that'll have to be good enough.