OpenSource Income

I love open source, and there are so many of them the open source an freeware supporters and promoters! But the problem is when a man or exactly a programmer really gets open source he has got problems surviving the tough market, he has to do what other paid companies do, without even the financial part of the support. And surviving oneself is another thing. And we people who don't even mind using pirated material, when did we get so sensible so as to support those open source developers.
So in these tough conditions one has to decide, having two ways to handle it either take the open source project lightly and make it a side work doing it in your spare time, but this way the product life-cycle takes a back seat hampering the product, after all coding is no fun stuff, it expects dedication; or the other way to manage is leave your work, and make the open source project as your work, expecting your users to provide you with enough to survive! Similar is the condition with Michael Gundlach! I suggest we should never ever let them starve.
If by any chance you have used the AdBlock Extension for Google Chrome(it has a very strong user base of 1,000,000 users and has got 4.5 stars out of 5) , did you ever chanced to click on the link "Did You Know This Is My Full Time Job?"(See Pic Below), i tried finding the link but cant find it any more than just at one place at the options page of AdBlock. I know, AdBlock may be stealing my or any other blogger's revenue generating users by not letting them view ads, still I love to see open source/freeware success stories. Why should blogger's block AdBlock?

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Gmail The Spy

The other day I was checking out an e-mail from one of my friend, and interestingly enough it had some so called ads on the side which were themed in a way or the other about the "IIT's" this was the first time I noticed that my mail too had an IIT theme, I was like awwww..., whats that.That was the moment I realized of reading something written as "better ads in Google", stay tuned, and the gmail blog which said of how the ads will be customized just for you. But here it was happening real-time and it felt a bit of awkward.
And that's the reason I received so many college ads in the year end seasons, and so many android ads whenever the talk was hot!

And the worse part, Gmail web-clips can be turned off (from settings-web-clips tab) but the ads on the right side of your mail are not so easily switch-off'able, though there are some greasy monkey scripts and some other hacks. I don't like it when I get ads of Android when I talk of android, and ads of "get cheap phones" when I was talking in a conversation or two about mobile phones. Yes, yes I know, no human is reading my mail behind it, but still its all like, while delivering my letter my postman says to me " Your aunt is a good personality, and a rich one too. *wink ;-)*", and I open up to find a letter from my aunt praising something!
I dint say its bad but at-least its awkward, its innovative, it new and its good.