Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 11, 2003 12:27 AM
"is that the people making it doesn't get paid. Thats the point."
While I agree with what you've said, I disagree with that. More and more, people are getting hired by companies *because* they have developed or managed open source software. IBM and HP (now Sun, too) have been looking for people with Linux and Apache skills...even IBM's commercial product WebSphere uses Apache.
Just because software is opensource doesn't mean that companies won't pay you to develop it, or develop custom add-ons or plugins to it. To the contrary, opensource developers have probably a better chance of getting a job than someone who hasn't.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 11, 2003 12:27 AMWhile I agree with what you've said, I disagree with that. More and more, people are getting hired by companies *because* they have developed or managed open source software. IBM and HP (now Sun, too) have been looking for people with Linux and Apache skills...even IBM's commercial product WebSphere uses Apache.
Just because software is opensource doesn't mean that companies won't pay you to develop it, or develop custom add-ons or plugins to it. To the contrary, opensource developers have probably a better chance of getting a job than someone who hasn't.
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