Touché.:) However, in this case the key word is contributed. I think all of us geeks (I'm going out on a limb and assuming you're a geek as well) can agree that it's pretty silly to give up on something because the installer... the open source installer... is buggy.
"Red Hat became the first one-billion dollar open source company in its fiscal year 2012, reaching $1.13 billion in annual revenue."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
Yes, I'd say people use "Red Hat". More specifically they probably use Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or JBoss, etc.
I'll give you that HR in a typical corporate environment that doesn't leverage FOSS might not appreciate even a significant contribution to an open source project.
However, even the summary of this article mentions that this is for "the reader who is selling skills gained in an open source project". So, uh...yeah. Way to miss the point.
Are you implying that female developers choose to write proprietary software *because* of the protection from sexual harassment that labor laws provide? That's absurd. Now, if you said they work for proprietary software companies because they want to get *paid* for their work, that would make more sense. Luckily I have the best of both worlds with my job, as I work in the FOSS industry, yet still have full benefits, and every so often will contribute something of value while getting paid for it.;) But I know that I'm in the minority.
If there's any sexism, I've seen no proof it's internal to FOSS.
Agreed. I've never had any of my contributions denied simply because I am a woman. I had absolutely no problem getting a job either (in the FOSS community, no less!). And I've certainly never been 'attacked'. I keep reading and re-reading some of these comments and I'm just at a loss for words. This community is about more than keynote speeches. If your project denies your patches because you are female, then it's time to join a different project. Hit me up if you need help finding one.
I totally agree. I would not have known about Darwinia if it weren't for Steam, and now I feel like I've contributed to a good cause (a small developer with genuine talent).
Jail-breaking an iPhone doesn't use a buffer overflow, I don't believe: rather, it simply tells the phone to load up some hacked firmware via the restore functionality (in the same manner that iTunes would tell the phone to load Apple firmware)...
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Touché. :) However, in this case the key word is contributed. I think all of us geeks (I'm going out on a limb and assuming you're a geek as well) can agree that it's pretty silly to give up on something because the installer... the open source installer... is buggy.
I also really, really wanted to use that meme.
"Red Hat became the first one-billion dollar open source company in its fiscal year 2012, reaching $1.13 billion in annual revenue." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat Yes, I'd say people use "Red Hat". More specifically they probably use Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or JBoss, etc.
At least when Linus Torvalds bitches about Fedora, he actually contributes rather than pulling a: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3sp7o8/
Which browser are you using? I'm not having any problems here with Chrome on Fedora.
I'll give you that HR in a typical corporate environment that doesn't leverage FOSS might not appreciate even a significant contribution to an open source project. However, even the summary of this article mentions that this is for "the reader who is selling skills gained in an open source project". So, uh...yeah. Way to miss the point.
Are you implying that female developers choose to write proprietary software *because* of the protection from sexual harassment that labor laws provide? That's absurd. Now, if you said they work for proprietary software companies because they want to get *paid* for their work, that would make more sense. Luckily I have the best of both worlds with my job, as I work in the FOSS industry, yet still have full benefits, and every so often will contribute something of value while getting paid for it. ;) But I know that I'm in the minority.
If there's any sexism, I've seen no proof it's internal to FOSS.
Agreed. I've never had any of my contributions denied simply because I am a woman. I had absolutely no problem getting a job either (in the FOSS community, no less!). And I've certainly never been 'attacked'. I keep reading and re-reading some of these comments and I'm just at a loss for words. This community is about more than keynote speeches. If your project denies your patches because you are female, then it's time to join a different project. Hit me up if you need help finding one.
I totally agree. I would not have known about Darwinia if it weren't for Steam, and now I feel like I've contributed to a good cause (a small developer with genuine talent).
Aye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_needful
We use tools like smart phones and irc to DO our jobs where I work.
Jail-breaking an iPhone doesn't use a buffer overflow, I don't believe: rather, it simply tells the phone to load up some hacked firmware via the restore functionality (in the same manner that iTunes would tell the phone to load Apple firmware)...
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