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=== Why does getting paid matter? ===
''Michael, your just a greedy bastard! Why all the attention towards money, can you not understand the potential for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Fordism_and_society utopian] life through Open Source?'' Perhaps; Life sitting in a rented basement writing free code and barely paying the bills isn't a terrible prospect to me, I could really ''digg'' that life. But as I get older I realize people cannot build a future doing that. People that attend Open Source Symposiums are not impoverished, they can afford plane tickets; the mozilla guys are doing well for themselves; my professors have families they support. Is it wrong of me to want the same standard of living as they?
The key to life is getting paid to do something you love, and thats what I am trying to look for. I really love programming, when I have to time to sit down and dedicate 6 hours to the mozilla code base trying to solve my project, I am having a great f'in time. Other open source projects would no doubt derive the same pleasure in me, and in this wiki-report I have discussed two other open sourced projects which seam very interesting to me.
What I am left with as I leave the FSOSS is the belief that employment in the world of open source is possible. On projects like METRo undiscovered fountains of wealthy lay hidden, waiting for a lucky prospector to come along and strike gold (or perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite pyrite]). With projects like XEN, large mining facilities have already been established, and those with the pick and shovel of knowledge can come assist the extraction process.