Programming

17450 readers

66 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Possible to make career in free software? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm a computer engineering undergrad in my finals and I really don't care about applying for jobs, there's so much competition and I hate just about every one of my classmates. I don't want to spend hours making shitty bloated proprietary software but 99% of jobs seem to be like that. Is it possible to actually make a career in free software, should I just ditch out of tech and pick something else

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm paid to do a mix of open and closed source coding. Rather, I manage a team who do, and I still code because I'm a stubborn bastard.

I've been at this for decades, and had to carefully and willfully craft a space to open-source work from my team that makes sense to share.

I did a lot of closed source coding on the way to this point in my career.

At the end of the day, my open source commits will outlive me, but my closed source commits put food on the table.