--- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sonja Solomon wrote: > > Same here to both of you. Just about anything > from Micro$oft is expensive > > in the long or short run. If they don't get you > one way, M$ will overcharge > > you somewhere else. I do believe it induces the > brain into a partial coma > > that affects the independent thinking process. I > am amazed at how many in > > the university setting are brainwashed and taught > to be helpless. Speaking > > from experience, it is a long and hard battle to > educate my students on the > > rest of the world. > > I think one of the M$ allures students find > interesting is the user base > and thus the potential to write that "killer app" > that makes their > fortune or to work for a large software house > eventually making Senior > Programmer and lots of money. Developement for Linux > doesn't come with > that type of reward. > > My impression of the software industry today though > leads me to believe > that there are fewer and fewer such opportunites due > to consolidation. > Microsoft is using its monopoly power to literally > take over the > business. This is one reason more software > developers are choosing to > develop open source. There's a burgeoning small > contractor business for > Gnu/Linux that presents great opportunity to the > self-starter. There's > also a great need for killer apps on Linux. So by > developing that killer > app for Linux, the software developer creates a > brand for himself and > finds business. > > -- > Craig Jackson > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree and affer a caveat, or two. I think that the killer app comes out of the blue. Open Source, or not, the author gets the kudos. The apps I wrote I was contracted to write. I was paid what I asked. My Grandaddy (born 1889) had one piece of advice that really mattered. Find something you love to do, and find a way to make money doing it. I like computers and I like to invent, I finally landed that job, it only took twenty years, but I was distracted as a young soldier because combat was a helluva buzz. If you like what you do, and it pays the bills, you win. If you hate what you do, but it pays well, you lose. Life is too short to waste time. I would invent and do the rest of my jobs for nothing. Getting paid for it is GREAT! Make your choices. Live with them. Always pay for a lawyer to read the fine print! Never say I love you unless it it worth a house baby. ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
