I work at a company that is neither small nor insignificant. My group has been trying to hire people for the past 4 months or so to take over one of the 2 and a half jobs that sit in my lap right now. Every time we find someone remotely qualified, though, we find out they also have standing offers from google and yahoo and that the very next day they've taken one of those. We can't compete with either in salary so we lose. It *is* a brain drain.
I think what the linux community needs is to get together, as a whole, and develope a really good abstraction layer for dealing with low-level hardware/kernal issues that vary between strains and distros. Just imagine a common interface that game devolopers could write for that would guarantee compatibility for just about any *nix (leaving those nitty details to the abstraction developers of course).
Of course each version would be backwards compatible (a la M_soft's COM interfaces.. but better, of course;). And it would mearly be an addition to the OS, not superceding anything.
(can i patent this?;-)
Hey, what kind of protection does slashdot have against auto-first-posters? it looks as if the comment submit form has some authentication codes in it at least. I'm sure this has been done in the past... anyone know what's happened? Hard to do, or just really discouraged?
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I work at a company that is neither small nor insignificant. My group has been trying to hire people for the past 4 months or so to take over one of the 2 and a half jobs that sit in my lap right now. Every time we find someone remotely qualified, though, we find out they also have standing offers from google and yahoo and that the very next day they've taken one of those. We can't compete with either in salary so we lose. It *is* a brain drain.
I think what the linux community needs is to get together, as a whole, and develope a really good abstraction layer for dealing with low-level hardware/kernal issues that vary between strains and distros. Just imagine a common interface that game devolopers could write for that would guarantee compatibility for just about any *nix (leaving those nitty details to the abstraction developers of course). Of course each version would be backwards compatible (a la M_soft's COM interfaces.. but better, of course ;). And it would mearly be an addition to the OS, not superceding anything.
(can i patent this? ;-)
Hey, what kind of protection does slashdot have against auto-first-posters? it looks as if the comment submit form has some authentication codes in it at least. I'm sure this has been done in the past... anyone know what's happened? Hard to do, or just really discouraged?