keesj

If you are programmer in a large company chances are you boss not not even know in what kind of
trouble you get yourself to get the software running. The boss will care about sales and time-to-market.

Suppose you write that great piece of software. Something really keen that might even be useful outside the scope of the your miserable application. If the sales guys don't know how to sell it you will not get rewarded, not by your boss and not by other (the product is a failure and so are you).

Writing open source software can be so much more rewarding. The rewards come in different taste, but they are always welcome. I consider that receiving a bug report already is a great reward. That is only if people know who is responsible for creating and resolving the bug.

I have seen great changes in the last month or so in the way nokia people are handling maemo and communication. I am starting so see names behind the components and I value that very much. For a company this must be hard (what happens when somebody goes away etc). But for the developer it must be a rewarding but pressuring experience. Please keep on the great work and keep popping names, you deserve it!

Open source programming.

03/09/07

11:55:33 am Open source programming.

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