Question about how to make a living from open source

[tzahi ml]

Hi All,
I am in need of assistance.

I am currently working as a freelancer coding stuff in a company.
However, although I am making good living, this does not scale much (and
promotion is out of the question :) ).

Anyway, I am looking for ways to scale.

One of the ideas that were given to me is to compile couchbase or postgres
and distribute the binaries with a support license. Find 4-5 customers
which pay big bucks and make a living. Though, not much scale there either,
unless i start taking employees...

Another idea is taking employees but people in the business are telling me
i am better off staying a freelancer than taking employees. Not sure what
is true here.

One other idea I had is hosting complex solutions for sites. Like
postgresql couchbase etc... which is difficult for the average joe and
making it scale like heroku etc...

Can someone give me a clue?

Thanks!

Tzahi Fadida.
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