Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs?

stry_cat writes "My company has bought into the FUD and is going 100% Microsoft. Rather than work in this environment and be continuously at odds with upper management, I have decided to seek employment elsewhere. Where do I look for an open source job? I've started with the local paper's Sunday classifieds. I've looked on dice.com and monster.com. However almost all are Microsoft related. The few that aren't are some sort of dinky contract or temp job. So is there a place to find a job in an open source environment?"

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Embeddedland

[LikwidCirkel]

Stop thinking of "desktop PC's" and start thinking embedded hardware products. Tons of things are moving that way anyway.

In general, I find that the embedded community is much more into open source solutions.
Windows is the king shit desktop OS. Linux is the king shit embedded OS.

I work at SUSE.

[vojtech]

... we're hiring. Are you any good?

Re:You're a douche

[quantaman]

At my last job our team had 6 developers, 4 of us used Linux on a daily basis. The company decided it was going all Windows, we were able to hold out a while but the Linux portions of the environment were getting more and more marginalized.

We all had the option of moving over to the MS side, but frankly if we wanted to work with MS there were better options, and within a year all 4 of us were gone.

A job should be something you enjoy, and if you have the ability to find enjoyment in the tools you use that counts for a lot.

As for those complaining about him looking for a new job while everyone else is struggling with unemployment... Well I hear there's about to be an opening for someone willing to work with Windows.