[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i25pjo.1mo5uqc1yxqsjkN% [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> > and you will both learn a lot _and_ acquire "professional experience" >> > that any enlightened employer will recognize as such. >> >> It depends :-). In my experience I met employers being concerned by my >> implication in the oss world :-). > > Considering that even the King of Proprietary Software, Microsoft, now > happily hires major Open Source figures such as Jim Hugunin (MS was also > a top-tier sponsor at the recent OSCON, with both managerial and senior > technical employees giving keynotes and tech talks), it boggles the mind > to think about which kind of company would instead be "concerned" by a > candidate's OS experience. > > Have you seen/heard of Jim lately? Cause I haven't. By the time he was the lead of the AspectJ team his charismatic presence was everywhere (at least around that project). However I do agree with you. The only remark is that US trends are not hitting my part of Eu so quickly ;-) (things are indeed changing). > These are the ones you don't wan't to work for anyway !-) Well... this is sometimes debatable :-). bests, ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
