Henri Yandell wrote: > I was going to make the same point. Why is volunteering for > open source a bad thing?
Here's a couple of politically incorrect things to think about: 1) Conrad D'Cruz made the comment that the value of tech professionals has diminished recently. Could the fact that software developers are giving their services away for free through open source projects have anything to do with that? Could it be that software developers have devalued themselves by giving away their two most precious assets: time and ingenuity? 2) How many out of work tech professionals are providing free open source tools and support to companies that would otherwise be paying them. How many are providing tools and services to people in other countries who are doing outsourced work? For an example, go to the JUnit group ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and look at the nationalities of people asking questions vs. that of the people answering them. I think open source has a lot of benefit at the corporate and macroeconomic level but for individual participants there may be a few downsides along with the benefits. I think these are two that might be worth considering. ----------------------------- Mike Silverstein SilverMark, Inc. The Object Testing Company www.silvermark.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.576 / Virus Database: 365 - Release Date: 1/30/2004 _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
