On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 23/09/2010 08:37, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> Are devs who work on or use open source happier in their day jobs? > > Tricky. For me, I started working on open source as a hobby. I really > enjoyed my previous (non-OSS) job but it is hard to beat being paid to > do your hobby.
I feel the same. Once you get too involved in an OSS project (specially as a committer) it's really hard to get back working on non-OSS stuff. Several reasons for this: - you learn a lot more when doing OSS: 1) you need to do a lot more research 2) since your work is public, before a commit, you need to review your changes with much more detail, to ensure your code is of the highest quality 3) since your code is exposed to the world, often someone else might comment on it giving suggestions about how to improve it - the community - you have many people reporting bugs, contributing with ideas or with code - again, you learn a lot from this - finding a new job is easier - since you work on OSS, every potential employer can actually see what you have exactly done (code, ideas discussed in the mailing lists, comments on JIRA, etc), unlike when you work on proprietary code. regards, - > > I can see this could be true for other folks that made the some hobby -> > work transition. Whether it applies more widely? Don't know. > >> Has anyone seen _independent_ studies that say one way or the other? > > Afraid not. > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org > > -- Filipe David Manana, fdman...@gmail.com, fdman...@apache.org "Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
