One of the things I've noticed in my day job, which is admittedly
self-selecting since I work for a company that engages with people deploying
open source, is that I routinely hear, how shall I say it, more enjoyment from
the developers in their work as compared to the old days when they worked
Well, I know I personally feel this way! I've worked on closed source
search engines a good while, and now Lucene/Solr for a good while, and
I know which one makes me happier ;)
And I suspect that's a good strategy by this client of yours..
I know once I finally have to move away from my sponsor
Le 23/09/10 17:37, Grant Ingersoll a écrit :
One of the things I've noticed in my day job, which is admittedly self-selecting since I
work for a company that engages with people deploying open source, is that I routinely
hear, how shall I say it, more enjoyment from the developers in their wor
On Sep 23, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Michael McCandless wrote:
> Well, I know I personally feel this way! I've worked on closed source
> search engines a good while, and now Lucene/Solr for a good while, and
> I know which one makes me happier ;)
I hear ya. The interesting thing for me, is it isn't j
On 9/23/10 5:37 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
One of the things I've noticed in my day job, which is admittedly self-selecting since I
work for a company that engages with people deploying open source, is that I routinely
hear, how shall I say it, more enjoyment from the developers in their work
On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
> On 9/23/10 5:37 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>> One of the things I've noticed in my day job, which is admittedly
>> self-selecting since I work for a company that engages with people deploying
>> open source, is that I routinely hear, how s
On 9/23/10 7:13 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
But I see also extra advantages, probably more related to the fact I'm working
on an ASF project :
- First of all, and it may perfectly well be specific to France, a country
where people value d
On 23/09/2010 08:37, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> Are devs who work on or use open source happier in their day jobs?
Tricky. For me, I started working on open source as a hobby. I really
enjoyed my previous (non-OSS) job but it is hard to beat being paid to
do your hobby.
I can see this could be true
On 9/23/2010 10:37 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>
> At any rate, my motivation for asking is that I'm writing an article on some
> thoughts in this area spurred by something a client told me (at a very old,
> established company, mind you) about why they wanted to get the word out that
> they wer
On 23/09/2010 20:18, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
On 9/23/2010 10:37 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
At any rate, my motivation for asking is that I'm writing an
article on some thoughts in this area spurred by something a client
told me (at a very old, established company, mind you) about why
they wa
I've not seen any studies. I have a slightly different view as
developing is only part of what I do nowadays... so I'll share it/bore
you with it :)
The source isn't the only part, Open applies to a lot more in your
standard OSS project:
* I like that I can identify solutions and bugs through a w
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> One of the things I've noticed in my day job, which is admittedly
> self-selecting since I work for a company that engages with people deploying
> open source, is that I routinely hear, how shall I say it, more enjoyment
> from the devel
On 9/23/2010 11:13 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
> The other thing I'd say is that the answers to these questions are
> going to depend a lot on the particular developers in question. A
> couple of people have commented here on how great it is to be able to
> dig in and find the root cause of a bug, and
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
> On 9/23/2010 11:13 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
>> The other thing I'd say is that the answers to these questions are
>> going to depend a lot on the particular developers in question. A
>> couple of people have commented here on how great
On 9/23/2010 11:40 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
>> On 9/23/2010 11:13 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
>>> The other thing I'd say is that the answers to these questions are
>>> going to depend a lot on the particular developers in question. A
>>>
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