Posted by: jlguallar
on December 17, 2003 01:58 AM
Hi Anonymous Reader,
I'm paid to work with Open Source products. While at my work, I generate documentation on Open Source products, I report bugs in Open Source products, I train users in Open source products and I generate code that goes back to the Open Source community.
So, yes, I'm a paid "Open Source worker".
Then, you have all those developers working full time in Open Source products at companies named IBM, Red Hat, SuSE, Novell, MySQL AB, Mandrake, TurboLinux, HP-Compaq...
What you wrote was true about 5 years ago. Open source has evolved. Many companies (like mine, a for-proffit company) support, develop and use Open Source solutions because its good for them, not because they believe in global hackerism brotherhood. It's a technically sound and proven solution.
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Re:Inhibit factor
Posted by: jlguallar on December 17, 2003 01:58 AMI'm paid to work with Open Source products. While at my work, I generate documentation on Open Source products, I report bugs in Open Source products, I train users in Open source products and I generate code that goes back to the Open Source community.
So, yes, I'm a paid "Open Source worker".
Then, you have all those developers working full time in Open Source products at companies named IBM, Red Hat, SuSE, Novell, MySQL AB, Mandrake, TurboLinux, HP-Compaq...
What you wrote was true about 5 years ago. Open source has evolved. Many companies (like mine, a for-proffit company) support, develop and use Open Source solutions because its good for them, not because they believe in global hackerism brotherhood. It's a technically sound and proven solution.
Regards,
Josep
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