Will Open Source Developers be Well Paid?
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| Still, being a Committer matters, Riehle says. “If you are a developer at
| the Committer status, for an important open source project, you’re likely
| to have a higher salary. That’s anecdotal evidence [it comes from a study
| that hasn’t been fully published]. According to that study they
| empirically verified that. But until I fully see that, it’s anecdotal.”
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3687096
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Debian Linux project group to pay developers
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| A group of senior developers from the Debian GNU/Linux project have decided
| to raise funds to pay volunteers who work on the project in order that
| releases can be made more frequently.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5683/53/
Working for The Man? Advice to a young programmer
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| Many programmers, especially those who write for virtual machines such as
| Java or the .NET CLI, think that low-level machine architecture and
| processor instructions don't matter anymore. That's still not true, and I
| don't believe it ever will be.
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| [...]
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| It is very important to be able to show your next employer what
| you have done, and what you are able to do in a team. Free
| software/open source is the ideal way of doing this. It's not
| just a better way of producing software, it's actually better
| for the reputation of the people creating it. One of the first
| things I do when evaluating someone is to look for samples of
| their code out there on the Internet. If you work on proprietary
| software you can't show anyone anything, and real code speaks
| louder than any list of projects you claim to have worked on.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6173644.html
The unemployment myth and open source
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| Thanks to open source you can do the same thing writers can do, do
| just what you like between paychecks, prove your value in the context
| where you want to be paid. You could not do this in a closed source
| world, where you would be forbidden to see the code you had been
| working on once the pink slip hit your desk.
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| This is as much a paradigm shift as anything else, made possible by
| open source. It means your next job will probably involve work you
| like. Any programmer who wants to go back to a proprietary world
| should think about it carefully.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1055
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