On May 6, 4:47*pm, jacob navia <ja...@nospam.comwrote:
The work of the linux/GNU developer is completely taken from his/her
hands and sold later by other people that make relatively big profits
(SUSE/IBM/RedHat/) At least under the traditional model, the developer
doesn't keep his/her work but he/she receives a salary, normal health
benefits, retirement contribution, etc.
Yes, under the traditional model for example the company that I work
for matches my retirement package which is self-directed and portable
unlike much of the code that I write and I squirrel away quite a good
amount every month. Our deferred profit sharing is in addition to
that, as are my medical benefits and dental plan. The plan extends to
children even while in university and spouse of course. Courses are
paid for as long as they fall into career development and are pre-
approved. The benefits are good and I am grateful for them as well as
for flexible hours and a 4 month leave of absense each year as well as
scheduled paid vacation. I am grateful for my employer's generosity.
The company functions and lucnhes etc. are extended to all of our
employees as well as other percs like cool computers at christmas
time. All of our employees get most of what I do.
Under the GNU/Linux model, the developer doesn't receive *anything*.
Life is full of choices. I would never say to my employer because I
trust these guys and I would never say that I will never use Vista.
And I have a new dual core desktop machine paved with Vista courtesy
of one of our clients as well as more desktops and linux and windows
servers than you can shake a pragma at.
I have registered versions of many Qt cross-development environments
and all that other stuff that we traditional model programmer's get.
No wonder I did not really like that model, sorry
Well, I never doubted your preference to work for money. I am always
surprised when anyone writes ShareWare expecting to make a profit. We
traditional programmers just kick that stuff out for proof of concept
or fun between wifetime, playtime, family time and sleeptime or while
coffeeing it up and letting the dogs out in the morning before we make
the commute or VPN in to the client's site.
So it is with a great deal of sadness that I hear these young guys who
deserve better buying-in to this GPL model and pouring their hearts
and souls into someone else's profit margin.
At the end of the day guys like me have tossed more resumes in the
trash because I did not see the career path strategy and work history
that should have followed the excellent transcript of marks. I always
wanted someone who was motivated by greed as well as technical
ability. We are in business computing and practicing sound business
analysis in one's career path is always desired because it generally
results in sound solutions and good client relationships and of course
money.
Bill
