Re: [QD-Filosofia] Open Source is Not a Career Path

Concordo... e a melhor explicação é que certificação vale nada no mundo 
open-source... Dificilmente se foge da meritocracia.

[]s, gandhi

Omar Kaminski wrote:

> Pescado da /.
>
> http://blog.informationweek.com/002186.html
>
> Open Source is Not a Career Path
>
> "If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career 
> path, you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus 
> Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he 
> doesn't), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it 
> software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate need apply.
>
> That's the message Torvalds and several other open-source luminaries 
> have for the next generation of programmers. "A career path is not a 
> motivation," Torvalds said during Tuesday's Open Source Development 
> Lab's enterprise Linux summit. A reluctant visionary, (he blushed a 
> shade of bright red during an intro that mentioned his inclusion in 
> Time Magazine's list of most influential people) Torvalds is 
> nonetheless passionate about his life's work, an open-source operating 
> system that has blossomed into a major force in the technology world.
>
> The future of open-source software depends upon bright, motivated 
> programmers filled with ideas and initiative rather than programmers 
> promoting their own, or their employer's, self interests. It's a 
> concept that has been embraced by many but is nonetheless 
> counterintuitive to an entire generation of programmers conditioned to 
> view code (rather than the code's problem-solving capabilities) as a 
> competitive advantage.
>
> Times are changing, and the developer community needs to get with the 
> times, said Brian Behlendorf, who shared Tuesday's OSDL keynote with 
> Torvalds, Mitch Kapor, founder and chair of the Open Source 
> Applications Foundation, lead Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, 
> and OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen. Behlendorf, chief technology officer of 
> CollabNet Inc. and a founder of the Apache open source project, 
> pointed out that the traits that make for a successful open source 
> developer are different from what makes for a successful proprietary 
> developer.
>
> "In open source, you have to be a better communicator and to be able 
> to defend yourself," Behlendorf said. He added that a thick skin also 
> is a requirement when laying bare one's work for all the world to see 
> and criticize. "There's not a lot of room for prima donnas."
>
> Posted by Larry Greenemeier on Feb 2, 2005 at 12:42 AM |
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