New Delhi resident Raj Mathur is living proof that a Free and Open Source Software advocate can earn a decent living working with clients who are using or planning to use FOSS. Raj has also been a member of the Open Source Initiative board of directors and is a leading member of his local Linux users group.
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=> Indian GNU/Linux advocate and independent FOSS consultant Raj Mathur (video).
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So is it required to be a slob to be a FOSS consultant? Maybe he should spend some of that “decent living” on a maid.
I find this amazing that people think that it is impassable to make a descent living off open source software. I work for a company and do quite well out of it. We do this by selling top quality Drupal installations.