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Two and three year project queues are the norm.

Apple will continue to support XQuartz as an open source project.

But for all we know they will be acqui-hired, maybe even by Google, and then shifted to a different project.

Spend your free time doing exactly 3 things 1. working on a side project 2. spending time with your girlfriend.

There is a lot of good security work that has started inside the OpenBSD project, and I don't mean to talk any of that stuff down.

If copyright should be used to defeat that sort of project, then it undercuts the very rationale upon which it exists in the first place.

In educational settings, it has been possible for a long time now to copy quite freely from copyrighted works for class projects and the like.

I would be very depressed on projects, make slow progress, at times get into a mode where I was much of the time pretending progress simply because I could not bring myself to do the work.

If you are burned out, you might still be able to feel the joy and excitement briefly at the start of a project/idea, but they will fade quickly as the reality of day-to-day work sets in.

For the year prior to leaving EnterAct, I had also been working with the OpenBSD project, mostly by writing all their security advisories, but also doing a bit of part-time security research.

But until the corporate "software project" culture understands why it happens and why people are often far happier with their clunky spreadsheet than with your shiny WPF app or web page, I don't think this problem is going to go away.

You will either have something going from your side project or you will have enough money saved to legitimately work full time on something without worrying about billsAs far as the idea, go for something as boring as possible.

On the heels of the failure of a project where I have spent weeks building up for, I will quickly force myself to do routine molecular biology, or general lab tasks, or a repeat of an experiment that I have gotten to work in the past.

The longest, and hardest, i had was a project that ended up with me stuffing envelopes every night and making daily trips to the post office sending of letters to people around the world because my offer started getting passed from message board to message board.

People found a bunch of vulnerabilities in OpenBSD and laughed as the claim at the top of the OpenBSD changed from "no vulnerabilities" to "no remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the default install".And at some point in the last 10 years, didn't OpenBSD's distro servers get owned up?I'm sure the OpenBSD project would like its threat model to include NSA.

I'd wager it's less than 40%.No, what typically happens is that an analyst or software dev notices someone's cool spreadsheet and says "hey, I can make something that does this job, but it'll be a LOT faster and I'll put the data up in the cloud and multiple people can access it at once and..."And that sounds great, so they get a little budget and a project is born.