I'm sure you realize that OSS is responsible for many of the things programmers, sysadmins, etc are hired to maintain and extend. I'm sure of it. Not that any of it is any good. After all, who uses Apache? Like one guy, right? And Linux? Any two-bit hack could have put that together in spqre time between sitcoms. These amazing examples of OSS are the result of collabaration and teamwork on a scale grander that most "real companies" could ever hope to achieve. Think very hard before you turn gifted programmers and developers away because they didn't pay $10,000 and don't have a "Certificate of Achievement" for the skills they have. My job consists of 95% OSS products and infrastructure and the rest are mostly tools to assist our developers in these infrastructures. An environment that requires real programmers with real-life skills aren't afraid to look in the OSS community. People who paste pictures into an IIS server and call it a job might be, though.
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I'm sure you realize that OSS is responsible for many of the things programmers, sysadmins, etc are hired to maintain and extend. I'm sure of it. Not that any of it is any good. After all, who uses Apache? Like one guy, right? And Linux? Any two-bit hack could have put that together in spqre time between sitcoms. These amazing examples of OSS are the result of collabaration and teamwork on a scale grander that most "real companies" could ever hope to achieve. Think very hard before you turn gifted programmers and developers away because they didn't pay $10,000 and don't have a "Certificate of Achievement" for the skills they have.
My job consists of 95% OSS products and infrastructure and the rest are mostly tools to assist our developers in these infrastructures. An environment that requires real programmers with real-life skills aren't afraid to look in the OSS community.
People who paste pictures into an IIS server and call it a job might be, though.