On 1/13/06, Nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 8-10% - That's of those seeking employment. Uncounted are those who aren't > seeking employment. It's something i was told, and the number includes > people who have decided to remain unemployed and just live off of welfare.
Perhaps you should substantiate your wild (and somewhat offensive) claims? Several of my good friends are Scandinavian software developers. They came over to live (and work) in the US for several years but then went back to Scandinavia (to live *and* work!) to raise their kids. They are employed by large software comporations (like Ericsson) and they are, for the most part, also heavy contributors to open source projects. Some code they write on company time, some on their own time. Most every open source developer that I know (and I've known many over the 25 years I've been developing software) is gainfully employed and often their company sanctions release of code as open source - or directly sponsors it. I've been writing open source on and off for about 20 years and, like most all of the other developers I've interacted with on those projects, I've always been gainfully employed while writing open source software. If you want to continue to rant about unemployed Scandinavians and their virtuous welfare system, please do it on your blog and not on this technical mailing list. -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
