Thanks.
The question is more oriented towards the financial side. It's hard to
'support' in a way (maybe the word is participate?) open software
development IF it is designed as "unprofitable" and therefore doesn't have a
hired work force.
The basic concept of "no one owns the code / design", that is no patent, is
great! No monopoly! No government either. However there is a committee
involved in a way. ;-)
Don't get me wrong, I FULLY support open software as it is a great way to
create software as well as shareware and other methods recently (last 20
years) developed in creating and dispensing products.
However I cannot WORK in open software development as I, and a lot of people
I know, just don't have the free time to do so. Employment (and money) is a
first consideration in life.
So essentially all the developers are unpaid as there is no "profit center"?
Red Hat is such a profit center. Just trying to understand all these open
development concepts from a bean counter perspective. And therefore what's
in it for me...
Randy Garrett
El Sobrante, CA USA (NorCAL)
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From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [discuss] SourceForge jobs
I've never looked, but linuxquestions has a jobs page:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/jobs
Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
>
> On 11/09/2006, at 02:53, Randolph D Garrett wrote:
>
>> I'm a job seeker (well, will be when I can).
>>
>> I was just looking at the openings in Source Forge for the Open
>> Office
>> and
>> others.
>>
>> Are virtually ALL jobs / projects in open software unpaid positions?
>> Only
>> supported by "donations" and for the primary persons only?
>
> There are a few paying jobs in projects like OpenOffice (heck, I even
> got payed to work on OpenOffice for a while) but you most likely won't
> find them on SourceForge. The people that I know who worked for pay on
> OpenSource projects tended to get there by one of three ways:
> 1) They where working for free on the project, and then where contacted
> as asked "would you want to do the same, just for pay?"
> 2) They where employed by a company that contributes to OpenSource
> development.
> 3) They are consultants / self employed, and one of the things they do
> for there clients is relevant work in OpenSource projects.
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