Anonymous reader: Work on a project in your spare time. If you can't prove experience, prove know-how. A well written application under your belt will be the experience you need to say, "Look, I've programmed before! Now pay me for it!"
A good example is a small calendar app or even contributing to FOSS like Pidgin, GIMP, or even getting involved with bug reports! There's dozens of ways to write code. If you do it long enough, you WILL have 2-5 years of experience!
-Tres
The US is about 1/3 obese. That level of obesity leads to a lot of rich and a lot of lazy people, and that will certainly change the motive of why a US citizen would get involved in a free product to begin with.
I agree to an extent with the generalization, however I personally observe a lot of those in the states who do care about the free software ideals and getting involved in GPL projects. Most of them didn't know a year ago what free software was really about.
In US colleges, free software is taught more as an option than as a moral or world-improving decision. But go figure, philosophy books don't have a Linux chapter yet...
For years, the US general public has learned to suppress a lot of energy around free things. Between the promotional "free cars", "free cellphones", "free diet pills", "free financing".. perhaps this is a long-term effect of the "free lunch" concept has left on our economy untrustworthy of free things... Leading the US to start believing that "free" means "pay out your eye balls"... Or perhaps the competitive business models of the country have brainwashed us that money equals power and to exploit the weak and take advantage of every financial gain you can.
There is a considerable amount of the US only looking to use free software for monetary gain, and not to give back. Hopefully we can change that.
-Tres
Mlts -
I think CrazedSanity is trying to illustrate that using Email is only a small portion of using Outlook.
A "solution" may imply that calendaring needs to auto-sync, or that contacts need to auto-load.
POP3 is great, but from my experience with company email, half of the battle is getting good collaboration, which often requires coding against the API to implement properly. When CrazedSanity upgraded to Exchange 2007 he must have noticed components that worked prior are now broken and make his work day more cumbersome.
What I've learned living in the FOSS world and talking to the Microsoft world is: 1. Look for backwards compatibility mode, 2. Code your own, or 3. Simply Wait.
-Tres
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Anonymous reader: Work on a project in your spare time. If you can't prove experience, prove know-how. A well written application under your belt will be the experience you need to say, "Look, I've programmed before! Now pay me for it!" A good example is a small calendar app or even contributing to FOSS like Pidgin, GIMP, or even getting involved with bug reports! There's dozens of ways to write code. If you do it long enough, you WILL have 2-5 years of experience! -Tres
The US is about 1/3 obese. That level of obesity leads to a lot of rich and a lot of lazy people, and that will certainly change the motive of why a US citizen would get involved in a free product to begin with. I agree to an extent with the generalization, however I personally observe a lot of those in the states who do care about the free software ideals and getting involved in GPL projects. Most of them didn't know a year ago what free software was really about. In US colleges, free software is taught more as an option than as a moral or world-improving decision. But go figure, philosophy books don't have a Linux chapter yet... For years, the US general public has learned to suppress a lot of energy around free things. Between the promotional "free cars", "free cellphones", "free diet pills", "free financing".. perhaps this is a long-term effect of the "free lunch" concept has left on our economy untrustworthy of free things... Leading the US to start believing that "free" means "pay out your eye balls"... Or perhaps the competitive business models of the country have brainwashed us that money equals power and to exploit the weak and take advantage of every financial gain you can. There is a considerable amount of the US only looking to use free software for monetary gain, and not to give back. Hopefully we can change that. -Tres
Mlts - I think CrazedSanity is trying to illustrate that using Email is only a small portion of using Outlook. A "solution" may imply that calendaring needs to auto-sync, or that contacts need to auto-load. POP3 is great, but from my experience with company email, half of the battle is getting good collaboration, which often requires coding against the API to implement properly. When CrazedSanity upgraded to Exchange 2007 he must have noticed components that worked prior are now broken and make his work day more cumbersome. What I've learned living in the FOSS world and talking to the Microsoft world is: 1. Look for backwards compatibility mode, 2. Code your own, or 3. Simply Wait. -Tres