Re^666: Making Money with FLOSS?!
- October 29th, 2009
- Posted in Tips & Tricks . Ubuntu
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Here is a small recipe for people not working for OpenSource Companies like Canonical, RedHat, Novell, etc.:
- Get a Job ! This is Important. If Company == "OSS Company": forget about everything below,
- Get a Job in a real cool non-FLOSS company, where you work with computers, or you need to develop new software (which doesn’t imply working with a computer) and have a great salary
- Use FLOSS Software whereever you are and whatever you do
- Improve Processes using FLOSS Software
- Teach your Windows/Mac lovers around you, that they don’t need expensive Windows/Mac Software, for doing their work
- Show them, that they can do their work much faster then other Windows/Mac lovers, when they use FLOSS Software
- Kick and Hit everytime your Windows/Mac Lovers do mistakes, when doing Systemadministration or Software development
- Show them the cool graphic features of GNOME or KDE
- Try not to laugh all the time the computers of your colleagues are crashing when they open a large EPS file, pet them
- Be better then anyone else in your company.
- Always, at least any time you see your buddy from internal IT, praise OpenXchange for being a much better eMail solution for the company, and that your buddy should try it out on FLOSS OS
- Always know: You are a better person using FLOSS Software, you improve TCOs, you deliver your work always in time, you code python while your colleagues are still on Java Crack
- Be serious, explain, in a nice way, to your manager, if "it" doesn’t approve FLOSS Software usage, then "it"’s a moron, and should go to hell.
- when "it" doesn’t go to hell easily, just don’t listen to your manager, use FLOSS (see Topic 3)
- After you finished your duty for the cool company (because of the manager, "it" was a moron), start a blog thread on how to make money fast with FLOSS.
- Start from 1.
Now you know how to make money with FLOSS (and really fast and furious)
I figured it had to be something like that. I was just amusing myself by being the one giving the crossed look after someone refers to a person as an “it” instead of being the one receiving the look for calling some one’s baby “it”.
I didn’t realize “she” was no longer PC. I guess you like and learn how to offend. You could give a language lesson. I think in Chinese you don’t need to imply a gender with person pronouns. I Japanese you must specify your respect for the object and audience. In English there isn’t a neuter pronoun for a person. You just have to pick one. It used to be you used the male as the neuter/unknown. PC munged that up. I hear that it’s still that way in Spanish. I would think males should be offended by being the ‘unknown’.
Of course you could take the easy way out and call “it” “Pat”. If a woman named Pat complains, tell her you were talking about a guy you know and that she’s sexist for assuming female. If a guy named Pat complains, tell him you were talking about a lady you know and that he’s sexist for assuming male. If both a woman and man named Pat come to complain, tell them you were talking about the dog.
I guess if a dog name Pat comes up, pat “it” on the head and say “Who’s a good doggie?!?? Who’s a good doggie??!?”
:-)
the world gets so complicated sometime, that you need to be careful what and how you write or say.
I personally have made plenty of money with free and open source software. Mostly I do statistical analysis consultancy where every aspect of analysis, visualisation and reporting has used exclusively open software (mostly R and OpenOffice, but also anything that will make a pretty picture out of data). I also write software functions, all the way from a tiny macro to a full-blown data collection application, using open libraries, compilers and platforms.
My work almost inevitably involves working with proprietary data formats, sending reports to Microsoft Windows users and writing software that will run on the Windows platform – but also with data off now-redundant DEC, PDP and data-logging devices. Linux is the best platform for what I do. On occasion I have had to delete the contract clause requiring MS Office / Exchange / Messenger as a work environment, but I will use another OS if the employer insists.
You have heard of many of the companies and organisations that pay me good rates for working with open software.
Ouch! Seems a little harsh to dehumanize the manager like that. Not trusting Open Source isn’t a reason to treat a person like an inanimate object.
with the manager…but I’m not quite sure what’s PC.
when I declare manager as "he" our feminists will haunt me ;)
when I declare manager as "she" my gay friends will haunt me ;)
A FLOSS company won’t save you from morons. Believe me.
PS: your captcha sucks :D
Sorry that I have to ask, but… this recipe is meant as a joke, no? I thought it was obvious but the comments seem to indicate that people take it seriously?
care, if people are taking this as a joke or if they take it seriously…
I hope the real intention will be catched by people easily.