Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:30:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: j_mckitrick@bigfoot.com (J McKitrick) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <200003172130.OAA21283@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000317201500.B20791@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "J McKitrick" at Mar 17, 2000 08:15:00 PM
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> How does he suggest that people who love programming make a living? > Waiting tables on the weekends? :( There are two possibilities: 1) You are not a professional programmer, but a hobbiest, and you write code because you enjoy doing it. You don't get paid for it, the same as a painter should not be paid for his art, because a dilletante should have to do honest work for their money. 2) You work in a job-shop, where groups of companies band together to pay code-whores to make changes to exisiting programs, and, very rarely, to get them to write new code, but all this code is released into the public domain (patent and copyright law having been abolished, and shipping binaries without source having been made a capitol offense). 3) You are Richard Stallman or some other ivory tower type who is paid to do Real Computer Science Research(tm) for the sake of the research itself; a member of a tiny cadre of Professor Emerti, gradual students, and plain old students with too much time on their hands because they are taking fewer credit hours than they should be taking to make effective use of the money Society owns and is investing in them for the benefit of the future of Society. I think that's about all there is to it... > I'm going to school because i hope to make a living doing what i love, > and getting paid for it, even if that pay is modest in comparison to > other fields. Some would say that the amount of money there is in High Technology these day is attracting a large number of people who are passing Colledge with the minimum effort, turning degrees into something more akin to Union Cards, and thereafter flooding the market with people with credentials who are unable to actually solve problems using computers. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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