Understanding competence in the Open World
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| shreyas Jul 12, 2006 10:01 PM EDT |
Don: One of the things which should help independent users develop a fair amount of trust about people they are hiring is to interact with the community. As a FOSS developer what we care deeply about is acceptance in the community. So if you want to judge the capabalities of a person before hiring him you should ideally drop into the community channel (#evolution on irc in this case) and talk to a few people. The coolest thing about being a FOSS developer is that everything i have done is out in the open and a few searches away. Nice article, I sent it to the FOSS community in India too. I think the freedom to address your own pain points either by hiring people or by diving right in and fixing it yourself is one of the greatest strengths of FOSS. |
| grouch Jul 12, 2006 10:11 PM EDT |
shreyas: >"The coolest thing about being a FOSS developer is that everything i have done is out in the open and a few searches away." There it is. Imagine interviewing a former MS coder and asking to see all the code he or she produced that is in use. I don't think you'd get the deer-in-the-headlights reaction from a FOSS coder. The benefits and advantages of FOSS just keep piling up, from developer through to the user and beyond. Well beyond. |
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