This may become true at some future point, but not yet. For example, I'm not entirely ready to use the Internet as my sole resource for doing historical research. The Internet is many things, but as a historical archive and a primary source (the words "due diligence" come to mind), it's somewhat lacking.
Now to answer the original question, I'd probably agree that there are few careers directly tied to computer history. Besides the museums mentioned in other posts, the IEEE Annals in the History of Computing is the only periodical that I can think of offhand.
Beyond archiving, writing, journalism, films, and documentaries, I'm not sure what other career paths an interest in computer history would take you. However, I would think that if you find one of the above interesting, by all means focus your efforts along those lines.
It's difficult to find good evidence on both sides of the argument for Open Source. For the record, I'm definitely in favor of open source (especially if your company has no competency in software). In any case, I've included some pieces of evidence, not necessarily in favor of open source per se, but perhaps a bit more generally about dealing with an open community with regards to development.
Luc Barthlet's "The Simulation Sandbox"
Actually an overview of "The Sims" before it came out, but the end of the lecture discusses how they used immediate Internet feedback to improve the design of the game.
Linux GNOME FAQ
Hidden in the depths of the FAQ in the section "What CORBA implementation is GNOME using?", is a comment about how Xerox's implementation of CORBA was not used. If this had been open sourced, Xerox's name would be associated with an important part of one of the largest software projects around.
OpenSource.org
I apologize if I've being repetitive, but I didn't see this URL earlier. Anyway, this site has some very good arguments in favor of open source. You may wish to take what they have and modify it slightly for your specific purpose.
Slashdot Mirror
This may become true at some future point, but not yet. For example, I'm not entirely ready to use the Internet as my sole resource for doing historical research. The Internet is many things, but as a historical archive and a primary source (the words "due diligence" come to mind), it's somewhat lacking.
Now to answer the original question, I'd probably agree that there are few careers directly tied to computer history. Besides the museums mentioned in other posts, the IEEE Annals in the History of Computing is the only periodical that I can think of offhand.
Beyond archiving, writing, journalism, films, and documentaries, I'm not sure what other career paths an interest in computer history would take you. However, I would think that if you find one of the above interesting, by all means focus your efforts along those lines.
-RayIt's difficult to find good evidence on both sides of the argument for Open Source. For the record, I'm definitely in favor of open source (especially if your company has no competency in software). In any case, I've included some pieces of evidence, not necessarily in favor of open source per se, but perhaps a bit more generally about dealing with an open community with regards to development.
Actually an overview of "The Sims" before it came out, but the end of the lecture discusses how they used immediate Internet feedback to improve the design of the game.
Hidden in the depths of the FAQ in the section "What CORBA implementation is GNOME using?", is a comment about how Xerox's implementation of CORBA was not used. If this had been open sourced, Xerox's name would be associated with an important part of one of the largest software projects around.
I apologize if I've being repetitive, but I didn't see this URL earlier. Anyway, this site has some very good arguments in favor of open source. You may wish to take what they have and modify it slightly for your specific purpose.
Conferences like O'Reilly's Open Source Software Convention, LinuxWorld Expo, open source projects like Apache and MySQL, and sites like SourceForge and IBM DeveloperWorks are showing that Open Source Software (in some cases) is becoming quite mainstream. If you have even one really cool project, that's advertising that no budget could pay for.
Well, I hope this helps.
-Ray