Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 11, 2003 01:45 AM
Not really, there are just a handfull of people at Redhat, IBM and HP who are actually developing open source software. IBM has a lot of propietary software that their employees work on, much of it runs on top of open source software built by free labour. Each employee is very expensive and must generate revenue, open source programmers don't do that.
"To the contrary, opensource developers have probably a better chance of getting a job than someone who hasn't. "
I think that depends on what job it is. I know that many commercial software companies do not hire open source programmers since there is a risk that they leave and clone the projects they work on and give away the result.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 11, 2003 01:45 AM"To the contrary, opensource developers have probably a better chance of getting a job than someone who hasn't. "
I think that depends on what job it is. I know that many commercial software companies do not hire open source programmers since there is a risk that they leave and clone the projects they work on and give away the result.
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