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Re: Why Aren't Open Source Tools Being Considered?
Subject:Re: Why Aren't Open Source Tools Being Considered? From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axion -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:25:20 -0700
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 06:35 -0400, David Castro wrote:
>
> A third, and from what I have seen fairly common, incentive is that
> programmers get to help run the show. They're frusturated with being
> told what to do, even when they know that there are features that
> would really help (or yes, just be really cool) that they can't get
> the go-ahead to implement. Getting into FOSS, you can (usually) choose
> what you want to work on, work on it when you want to, and for how
> long you want to. That sense of self-management offsets the feeling of
> being a grunt at your "day-job." There's also a sense of real
> collaboration of equals, rather than the dominating "collaboration"
> that goes on in a typical software company, in which management can
> still override a good (or cool) idea.
A very good point. The atmosphere of open source companies is far more
positive than any other companies I've ever worked for. Once you've
worked with committed, passionate experts and been accepted by them, you
don't want to work any place else. In comparision, ordinary companies
seem dull and overly concerned with unimportant things like status .
"Navigator, navigator, rise up and be strong,
The morning is here and there's work to be done,
With your pick and your shovel and your old dynamite,
To shift a few tons of this earthly delight."
- The Pogues
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