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Open Source is Not a Career Path

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-have-to-want-it dept.

codermarc writes ""If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career path, you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he doesn't), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate need apply."

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  1. untrue by stryck9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is so untrue... Novell now certifies "Linux Experts"

    1. Re:untrue by TheViciousOverWind · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know you meant this to be fun, but really - I'm selfemployed and when I'm out at meetings, I meet SO unbelievable many persons who's either the boss in the companies IT department or is Senior Developer of Buzzword Management - all of which got a bazillion certificates on their businesscards, but when you talk with them they know diddly-squat about anything IT-related.

      An example was a meeting I had some days ago (about a website), and we talked about iframes, and each and every time he called it "frameworks" and when we talked about URLs, he insisted on saying UNIQUE RESOURCE LOCATOR (yes, he almost shouted it everytime, hence the caps) - that may not seem too weird if you're english-speaking, but considering we're danish, it was pretty obvious he was hoping for the "wow"-effect.

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      My <1000 UID is with a hot chick
  2. Passionate software? by Bloodlent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, do you mean the lusty robots?

  3. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I've wasted my life?

    You ask this on Slashdot? I think you already know the answer.