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by colin_mccabe
4443 days ago
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"Playing with your kids" is not mutually exclusive with doing open source work. Linus Torvalds (of Linux fame) is a father and so is Doug Cutting, founder of Hadoop. "Doing research" is not mutually exclusive with doing open source work either. In fact, I think these days, I would be suspicious of a systems software research project that didn't release the code. A lot of systems software research projects use Linux or some other open source code base as a starting point, since re-inventing the wheel is not very conducive to publishing quickly. It's pretty obvious why companies would want to look at open source contributions. They show that someone works well on a team, is motivated, and can write code. Of course, they're not ever going to be the only thing companies consider. It's not even that they don't work on projects in their spare time. They do, but they're not part of open source culture, where people share things by default. They're satisfied with having made the thing itself, and they're not going to put their hardware or software project on github any sooner than they're going to make a website for the house they built from scratch. How do you know they work on projects in their spare time? Is it because they shared them with you? |
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I think the context here is doing Open Source work in one's spare time. And I guess that Linus does it mostly during the daytime. (I think his diving software thing has probably been done in the spare time, though.)