Michael, No I don't thing open source is driving down the value of tech professionals. On the contrary, I think open source gives people the opportunity to get very valuable experience in the areas of their choice. Something that is not
I think there are many problem in the IS/IT field that pre-date the dot com boom and bust!! It is a lot more involved and we cannot pin the "blame" on any one thing!! Conrad Michael Silverstein wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
