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Dotgnu Coding Competition
Honestly writes "Apparently DotGNU seems to be offering more than the 'warm fuzzy feeling' to its contributors. Somebody has funded about $4500 worth of prizes for code contributions. The developers have confirmed that the $$$ is in FSF Hands (good hands, I suppose). Here is the split up of prizes. It's almost strange to earn money writing open source. Especially when you're not even
employed by dotgnu. Anyway all I can say is ,I like it. It's ideal for a grad student with lots of free time. But hardly anyone seems to have seen
the Newsforge posts (except maybe me)."
This Friday, August 29th, PBS will air an important one hour show on outsourcing work to foreign countries.
In the midst of steep economic recession and skyrocketing unemployment rates, more and more major American companies are cutting costs by outsourcing work to foreign countries. Now, these exported jobs are taking their toll on college-educated and skilled professional workforce. With experts estimating that 3.3 million white-collar jobs will be sent overseas by 2015, is America's middle class being hollowed out?
On Friday, August 29, 2003 at 9PM PBS NOW goes to India where the country's skilled and educated workforce is answering customer and financial service calls and taking over technology positions for some of America's biggest corporations while millions of Americans search for jobs at home.
Check your local listings!
i am gonna write a program for them that gets me FP EVERY TIME!
..it sure will suck when I have turn over my $4500 to SCO for using their IP.
"I just sat down with a blank spreadsheet and started making assumptions," says Olson
Is it safe to assume this guy works for SCO?
You do seem to need one.
1. Strange that they are keeping out people with access to Microsoft source code, but not people with access to SCO's source code. (Oh, but wait. It looks like anyone working with GNU/Linux already HAS access to SCO source code. Mmm, quite a dilemma.)
2. Hopefully documentation will count for SOMETHING. After dabbling in GNU Privacy Guard for a while, I have concluded it could use better man pages. And no, I am not volunteering...
In principio erat Verbum.
Ha!
never /ever/ stop believing in magical elves. Magic pixie dust is /the/ final ingredient to good software. If you stop believing, pixie dust supply will stop, and none off your software will work. Due to that you'll grow up, find that community spirit, freedom and helping your friends is not important, and you'll find a proprietary coding job that'll suck because of lack of pixie dust.
So, believe in the pixies, embrace Free Software, and be happy. At least happy enough to be not so disgruntled to post unhappy posts and thoughts here because your current "making a living" job sucks so much.
All Hail the pixies!!!!!!!!!!
DUDES. It's a JOKE. Oh well, serves me right for posting during labor day weekened, when the lusers are the only people around.
Oh wait...
Please help metamoderate.