A few brave individuals have decided to forgo a career in the proprietary field and instead devote their life to open source software creation, instead of relying on regular wages they've thrown themselves on the mercy of grateful strangers and are meeting living expenses via donation alone;
Patrick Verner
Parted Magic is a liveCD or USB distro of linux with a focus on Hard Disk Drive repair and maintenance. It has a large following in the tech industry and is a hugely useful open source tool, for many it's their first introduction to Linux as it doesn't require installation and solves many problems without costing a penny.
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I've been able to find very little about the move from his old employment into the open source model but updates have been coming thick and fast to his projects so obviously he's concentrating more on that than blogging. His goal is a very reasonable one thousand two hundred dollars a month, in june 2012 (from what i can tell the first month he's been doing this) he exceeded his goal by almost five dollars, which he carried over to the next month.