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

  • RonSijm@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    The month before Dwarf Fortress was released on Steam (and Itch.io), the brothers Zach and Tarn Adams made $15,635 in revenue, mostly from donations for their 16-year freeware project. The month after the game’s commercial debut, they made $7,230,123

    So about $16k on a 16-year project = $1k a year. He seems to be doing well after the paid release. So not really a success of “free software”

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I don’t know how you read that and thought that 16k was in total over 16 years and not just in the month before the Steam release.

      He was averaging about 10k/month, and the details of his monthly donations are posted on his blog.