Comments on: The enemy within http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/05/the-enemy-within/ Linux hacker, recovering mathematician, former athlete Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:50:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Valerie Aurora Henson http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/05/the-enemy-within/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Valerie Aurora Henson Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:11:50 +0000 http://digitalvampire.org/blog/?p=52#comment-593 And I tried so hard to get your name right - in the body of the post. The title was just a typo. Fixed now! And thanks for the original post. And I tried so hard to get your name right – in the body of the post. The title was just a typo. Fixed now! And thanks for the original post.

]]> By: Jason http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/05/the-enemy-within/comment-page-1/#comment-592 Jason Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:12:18 +0000 http://digitalvampire.org/blog/?p=52#comment-592 So... How do we *find* these jobs? And it's not just "free software", it's free software in some markets. I've been in free software for quite a long time, but it's all numerical. Even the "supporters" of free software lock down pretty much all of their numerical codes (yeah, I'm pointing at you, IBM). Everyone who pays money takes the work secret, buries it under patents, and throws in painful non-competes. In the numerical optimization field, it's such a one-way street that most research is far behind the state of the art. Perhaps there are plentiful free software jobs out there for some types of software. But not all. Right now, even GNU Octave has run out of funding. Right after companies used it to boot-strap their (expensive, restrictive) products. So… How do we *find* these jobs?

And it’s not just “free software”, it’s free software in some markets. I’ve been in free software for quite a long time, but it’s all numerical. Even the “supporters” of free software lock down pretty much all of their numerical codes (yeah, I’m pointing at you, IBM). Everyone who pays money takes the work secret, buries it under patents, and throws in painful non-competes. In the numerical optimization field, it’s such a one-way street that most research is far behind the state of the art.

Perhaps there are plentiful free software jobs out there for some types of software. But not all. Right now, even GNU Octave has run out of funding. Right after companies used it to boot-strap their (expensive, restrictive) products.

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