From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 21:22:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9548437B43E for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.7.49] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14wG43-00084z-00; Sat, 05 May 2001 22:22:35 -0600 From: Joe Warner Organization: Daemon News To: Joseph Mallett Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 22:16:02 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: Brett Glass , "G. Adam Stanislav" , References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050522221201.00681@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes, it's certainly true that they pay well but that in itself comes with a price. In order to get paid well, you basically have to sell your soul to them. A guy I work with said that he has a neighbor who works for them and a typical work week is 60 hours and it's not because he's a work-a-holic, it's because it's standard policy. Joe On Sat, 05 May 2001, Joseph Mallett wrote: > And FSF's Own the world is not a threat why? At least MS doesn't want to > force anyone in industry to work for nothing -- they pay well. > > FSF wants programmers to die out. I second Brett's recommendation of > 'Hackers', it explains the big bad crazy man quite well. > > -- > [ Joseph Mallett ] > [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] > [ Proud Open/Free/Net/4.4BSD User; C Programmer; Mad ] [ www.xMach.org ] > > Support my computer addiction buy something from http://www.jmallett.org -- Joe Warner Daemon News Bringing BSD Together Daemon News E-Zine http://www.daemonnews.org Daily Daemon News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Print Magazine http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message