Linux Developers?

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:07 am

Hey, just out of curiosity, are any of you accredited OpenSource developers? I've been thinking about joining the Fedora Project as a developer (in my free time) and maybe contribute a few device drivers or something. Have any of you done anything like this? if so, share your experience please.

Thanks.

mathematician · Post by **mathematician** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:44 am

My thoughts on Fedora and the like is that companies like Red Hat must think they are on to a good thing if they can get hobbyists to do for free what they would otherwise have to pay someone to do.

Just massage their ego a bit, and tell them they will have their name up in lights, and you don't have to pay your workforce a penny. Bur perhaps I am just being cynical.

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:07 pm

mathematician wrote:My thoughts on Fedora and the like is that companies like Red Hat must think they are on to a good thing if they can get hobbyists to do for free what they would otherwise have to pay someone to do.

Just massage their ego a bit, and tell them they will have their name up in lights, and you don't have to pay your workforce a penny. Bur perhaps I am just being cynical.

I agree fully with you mathematician.

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:01 pm

after my recent encounter with FC8, I no longer wish to help them out, they need more than some "free labor".

xyzzy · Post by **xyzzy** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:25 am

Rather than complaining about it, have you considered sending them a bug report about it? If you don't tell them about it, it's less likely to get fixed.

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:26 am

Already done. I sent a hardware profile to them and previous issues that I have had with FC.