Minor heresy: OSS as a movement is clearly in the interests of businesses and workers at them. Far less clear that it helps indie OSS devs.
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You don't see your lawyer need to write a few contracts for McDonalds gratis and support for years to prove they know what "at-will" means.
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@patio11 though, the OSS involvement that got me my first job was way faster and cheaper than law school :-)
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@patio11 dining on rep points is a good way to "stay hungry" :D -
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@patio11 craziest thing is it never ends. look at the cost of college & one recently wanted me to be an instructor "for the prestige"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 I switched careers at 35 and have done quite well. Mostly based on writing docs for open source ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -
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@patio11 We at@ParagonIE publish open source software because we want to make PHP (which runs ~80% of websites) more secure :) -
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@patio11 I wonder if Oracle accepts “exposure” as payment.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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