What did you did to your life, dammit? Carlos' schizophrenic conversation with himself about starting his own company instead of "fooling yourself with this sucky job of coding EJBs everyday and knowing they'll not even be used, as the whole project your're working on will die a horrible death sooner or later", and the consequences after he makes the move: no contracts, no money.
His text is very rich. It is at the same time hilarious, his observations being very accurate, scary because it's exactly what most programmers-would-be-entrepreneur entertaining the idea of quitting their well paying boring day job to go create cool open source software and get money doing consulting around it, fear will happen if they take the step.
Then it is extremely sad that his efforts failed and he is obliged to go back to a normal day job: the people at JBoss Group who sustain the open source app server development with fees for consulting and documentation offered us all a ray of hope that a new business model is possible for software development. Carlos' story shows that it does not work for everyone.
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