Re: [ossig] Open souce company.

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@xxxxxxxx>]

But maybe the open source work you do for pay is not the same
as the open source work you want to do for personal satisfaction...

So maybe best solution is to do both - work in open source
company (so you do not feel polluted by working with proprietary
software) and also go home and work on a different open source
project.

For example, I find the Linux kernel scheduling and resource
allocation algorithms very interesting at the moment.
But how many companies want me to do some work on that?
Only people who can make early profit from it : Novell,
IBM, OSDL (on behalf of their members) etc.


Imran


Gan Sze Kai wrote:
> Yes, Khairil. If we can work on the open source company, that will be 
> good for us to be more concentrate on open source development right?
> 
> Khairil Yusof wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:31 +0800, Gan Sze Kai wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Are they still a new born baby? or mature like other MNCs?
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Most software companies, already use some aspect of open source,
>>development tools, databases, language and libraries. There are not that
>>many pure play open source companies though yet (but this will change
>>soon).
>>
>>  
>>
>>>How do we get more involve in open source development with this company?
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Huh? Why with particular company? Getting involved with open source is
>>easy:
>>
>>- use it
>>- submit bug reports
>>- submit patches
>>- do localisation
>>- write articles
>>- develop your own open source apps/utils
>>
>>Or do you mean, getting job with said company. Which in that case, doing
>>the above helps.
>>
>>  
>>


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