Google's Summer of Code Over

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 11, 2005 @04:25AM from the put-down-your-pencils dept.

yootje writes "The Summer of Code ('Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development.') is now over. The result: 410 participants helping 38 projects suchs as Apache, KDE and FreeBSD. 'Among the project awards are both complex and simple innovations spanning the width and breadth of everything that the open source world has to offer. There are projects dealing with security, networking, VoIP, Java, mono, IP-PBX, online picture galleries, instant messaging and content management. There is even a game that Google's summer internship helped to pay for.'" Update: 09/11 17:15 GMT by Z : Added the story link at submittor's request.

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Re:awesome! by ClosedSource · 2005-09-11 11:47 · Score: 0, Troll

"but in 3 years when those college students are full time employees at a large corporation, odds are they will still be working on and contributing back to those Open Source projects and others."

You've made a lot of assumptions:
1. they will graduate
2. they will find a job
3. they will want to do programming for nothing after spending 40 hrs/week doing it for pay.

If they buy into the "proprietary software is evil" argument, they should probably just drop out of school, get a job that leaves them a lot of free time and just program free/OSS out of love.