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Discussion on: Open Source is Broken

 
desolosubhumus profile image
Desolo Sub Humus 🌎🌍

That's just it, isn't it? If all you have is Open Source as something you can show an employer, but you still have a decade or more of rejections from employers and still no initial job.

Again, the current incentive for companies is 'take what you want for free, because actually paying for free code cuts into profits and shareholders don't like that sort of thing'.

Employable =/= employed

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Idan Arye

I have a bit of a long reply for that, so I wrote it as another direct comment to the main post - dev.to/idanarye/comment/gck9

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moopet profile image
Ben Sinclair

Wait, I have a bit of a sticky with "If all you have is Open Source as something you can show an employer".

Open source is all you can show an employer. Everything else is hearsay. You can say, "I worked on the doohickey that tamped down vibrations in the flux capacitor" if you want, but unless you have permission to show your work, it's just words. Sure, you can back it up in an interview, but you can do the same if it was open source.

Having open source software you can show people is always of benefit to the company looking to recruit you. Of course, if it's crap then you're not going to get far, but...