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title: Matteo Spinelli on Open Source
date: 2013-10-07T06:33:40+00:00
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# Matteo Spinelli on Open Source

> The single most important decision in my career was to start developing open source software (OSS) and blogging about it. \[..\] I picked for them the most liberal license I could find (MIT) and companies from all over the world contacted me asking for customization and new features. My hourly rate was around $60 and I had to raise it on a daily basis because I couldn’t keep up with the increasing quote requests. Now I’m still a freelancer but I work for Microsoft and Google and my rate is at $150/h.

[Open Source made me the man I am](http://cubiq.org/open-source-made-me-the-man-i-am) by Matteo Spinelli