$10k a month is a 'sustainable full-time job' for a senior developer once you factor in health insurance and the additional 7.65% self-employment tax.
I prefer this model for opensource software. We get an awesome product and he gets enough money to sustain himself while maintaining it. Seems like a fair deal for all.
That's quite a bit less than someone with his skillset could earn in the US. He could easily earn 2-3x that amount in Silicon Valley, and possibly quite a bit more.
This is more or less what a senior Frontend dev usually makes in the US. The author single handedly made the first serious FOSS VPN that can replace IPSec and OpenVPN
GekkePrutser|6 years ago
But of course what he's getting now ($1212) is nowhere near that.
charlesu|6 years ago
I prefer this model for opensource software. We get an awesome product and he gets enough money to sustain himself while maintaining it. Seems like a fair deal for all.
autarch|6 years ago
nif2ee|6 years ago