Unhappily, we are far from living in an ideal world. Where people has mortgages and so many other cumbersome, but also very real things to pay.
This is something that is overlooked by so many ponents of the open source ideal, due to many reasons, but that could be resumed in two cases: the youthful idealism of smart and talented people, that being young do not have to care about such mundane things as paying a loan, college tuitions and food for the family. And two, the voices of those that already get a living from their (in most cases) well earned reputations, or in the well occupied niches of open source enterprise, and so are defending their bread-earner.
I very much agree with those that believe that open source projects could be benefical for many, even for humanity as a whole. However, I also believe that good work deserves payment, and open source can, in my opinion, only be a money-earner for a very selected group of applications and services.
A freshman programmer that has only his talent for coding to attempt to earn a living, is going to have a hard time competing with those that have already created a niche. There are only so many business slots for enterprises as Red Hat.
Open source, in my opinion, should be for most cases and scenarios, viewed as something that is made for the fun and good-will related to it, but not for the prospect of getting money out of it. I am not saying that it is impossible, because that would be a downright lie, only that it is a harder path to take, if you are interested in getting money for your work.
You nailed it. This guy is simply upset because he got his butt kicked out office for the first time, and now he creates a rant-article about 'career guidance' to let some steam off. The bit of the 'loser-cublicles' tells it all. And of course, we can also see that this guy has a very high opinion of himself. Well, I think that is not the worse of it.
As someone else has already noticed, when you have merely some months worth of experience, you are not very credible when discussing abot career guidance, and the unfairness of un-appreciated talents.
Despite that bit of common-sense, there are some comments that let us get a glimpse of the opinion of (unfortunately) many other freshmen out there: they feel that there is no job good enough for them. Happily life tends to correct our misconceptions.
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Unhappily, we are far from living in an ideal world. Where people has mortgages and so many other cumbersome, but also very real things to pay.
This is something that is overlooked by so many ponents of the open source ideal, due to many reasons, but that could be resumed in two cases: the youthful idealism of smart and talented people, that being young do not have to care about such mundane things as paying a loan, college tuitions and food for the family. And two, the voices of those that already get a living from their (in most cases) well earned reputations, or in the well occupied niches of open source enterprise, and so are defending their bread-earner.
I very much agree with those that believe that open source projects could be benefical for many, even for humanity as a whole. However, I also believe that good work deserves payment, and open source can, in my opinion, only be a money-earner for a very selected group of applications and services.
A freshman programmer that has only his talent for coding to attempt to earn a living, is going to have a hard time competing with those that have already created a niche. There are only so many business slots for enterprises as Red Hat.
Open source, in my opinion, should be for most cases and scenarios, viewed as something that is made for the fun and good-will related to it, but not for the prospect of getting money out of it. I am not saying that it is impossible, because that would be a downright lie, only that it is a harder path to take, if you are interested in getting money for your work.
You nailed it. This guy is simply upset because he got his butt kicked out office for the first time, and now he creates a rant-article about 'career guidance' to let some steam off. The bit of the 'loser-cublicles' tells it all. And of course, we can also see that this guy has a very high opinion of himself. Well, I think that is not the worse of it. As someone else has already noticed, when you have merely some months worth of experience, you are not very credible when discussing abot career guidance, and the unfairness of un-appreciated talents. Despite that bit of common-sense, there are some comments that let us get a glimpse of the opinion of (unfortunately) many other freshmen out there: they feel that there is no job good enough for them. Happily life tends to correct our misconceptions.