[KLUG Members] Open Source is Not a Career Path

[Charles Kusmirek]

The lead sentence of an article...

> "If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career 
> path, you're doing something wrong."


That's a quote from Linus Torvalds.

Here is the link:  http://blog.informationweek.com/002186.html
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I think that is open to debate.

> 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.

Great!  Slam the door hard in the face of prospective allies because of 
what, a survival instinct or a profit motive?  Well, there really is a 
bogey man after all kiddies.  Lock your doors, shutter the windows, and 
huddle under the covers.

Look, idealsim is almost as great as love.  Yet the bills still got to 
be paid.  So knock off the hypocrisy.  Be highly sceptical of those 
vested business interests yet seize every opportunity to exploit them to 
further open source initiatives.  The game might be rigged, but you 
cannot win if you do not play.

> a thick skin also is a requirement


What say you all?

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