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Open Source is Not a Career Path
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."
linus = lenus = penus = penis
I just heard some sad news on BBC radio - religious leader John Paul II just lost his struggle with illness. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't believe in Catholicism, there's no denying his contributions to the fall of Communism. Truly a Polack icon.
Of course. OSS software is destroying the industry. I have been saying that for years. If you contribute to OSS you are essentially devaluing the entire software industry. Its not a smart move.
LOL. Stallman is a motherfuckin loser without a GF. So what else to do other than pissing off people by making viral GPL.
I saw the headline and said "no shit."
How the hell can you make a living off of coding and giving everyone the ability to compile/install/modify and redistribute with no credit to yourself.
It don't even look good on a resume at most places.
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
That's the message Torvalds and several other open-source luminaries have for the next generation of programmers.
Luminary?
Grow up under the USSR sphere of influence while carrying around Andy Tanenbaum's MINIX book and hacking together an OS with some American academic-communist's public domain tool chain (complete with logos ripped from the pages of "Animal Farm") will get you called a "luminary"? Wake up people. We have a guy named Steve Jobs who is (indirectly) doing something about these wack-jobs who have risen to notariety on a "platform of MS animosity". It is going to take some time, but Macs available for the (original) price of a Commodore 64 should do it. In the mean time, anyone who sees value in listening to that jerkoff's career advice has a lot bigger problems than picking the wrong career path. (TransWhatta? Hello?) His impact is begins and ends over on kernel.org, end of story on device Earth::. If you are foolish enough to buy into "give my software away for free and make money on deploying it for a living", then you had better learn to live as cheaply as an Indian.
>Its no longer okay to just submit a paper and call that research. Buddy this is exactly what research and if you ask any pretty seasoned researcher you would see that you are wrong. On there other hand when you receive a grant you are supposed to have accomplished something by the end of it and while a paper is fine for some fields of research a software is preferable for CS. However, if you deal with complex enough stuff a paper would be just fine. Also another thing that you might want to think about. I am not sure what you mean buy doing OSS research for the academic community but I take it you work in an university of some sort. Now that said your job most deffinitelly does not qualify as a career in Open Source (not according to Linus Torvald and not according to anybody else). I find hard to believe that your salary is paid by grants rather than the educational institution and if you are still a student then you still don't have any career. Also knowing how *well* the US educational system works I doubt that you are even close be being a professional but that is only my personal oppinion and not a fact (don't take in the wrong way, there are a lot of ways to eccel in a US college but they all depend on self motivation and self training and students rarely do that). So give it about 10 more years and then you might have something to talk about :)
Sheesh. Maybe Linus and Steve should work together?
Yeah, Steve could use a few good grunt programmers, but they will have to learn to keep their heads down and their mouths shut.