Hi everyone, sorry, I'm a bit late here, but I wanted to answer on this thread.
On 11/10/2010 09:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:31 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: >>> The reason I ask this is because I am curious about what kind of >>> backgrounds a free software developer has. As for me, I am a student >>> majoring in Music and minoring in Computer Science. I got the idea of >>> writing this email, actually, because Google had an internship panel at >>> my school. Google just loooooves open source and those involved. It >>> sounds like Google has quite a friendly and cooperative working >>> atmosphere, and they treat their employees very well. Yeah, I'd like to >>> work for Google, but who doesn't right? :) >>> > > it's true, among other things they created an atmosphere that please the > needs of highly gifted people and it's no fun to work in an 'averaged' > atmosphere when you aren't 'normal'. Indeed a 'subtle' trick to catch > 'unwanted' people. I recently met someone who worked at Google and she said that she indeed had a lot of freedom, and could choose the projects she worked on. For what it's worth.. > OTOH it's your choice to shit on ethics ;), because Google shits on > ethics. Well, ethics and big companies are maybe not the best friends. But Google sometimes gets above the crowd, as recently in the suit against Oracle: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101111114933605 "Each of the Patents-in-Suit is invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because one or more claims are directed to abstract ideas or other non-statutory subject matter." About myself, I have been self-employed for about 10 years, at my own little company, which is mainly comprised of myself, a few interns from time to time, and working with other small companies or freelances here in Paris. I only do software development, and for a few years now I have mostly done audio related development. And yes, it pays the bill. I also do music and have quite a lot of artistic and not-so-artistic projects maturating in the lab, which usually involve both music and software development. Free software is everywhere here, it's my culture, but I'm no fanatic. I think there's enough room in the world for other approaches, and that it can all be complementary. -- Olivier _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
