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So it all boils down to high paying gigs then, which you can wing without contributing to OSS
by xchaotic 11y ago
So it all boils down to high paying gigs then, which you can wing without contributing to OSS
- mseebach 11y agoNo, "you" can't wing them in any generalizable manner (why isn't everyone doing it, then?). For high paying gigs (not merely well-paid ones), you need a reputation. There are several ways to build a reputation, and contributing to a popular OSS project is one such way. An interesting, tangential point is that OSS is probably the most pure meritocratic way to build a reputation -- it does not rely on gaining access to a powerful network (which relies on gaining access to a slightly less powerful network, which relies on ...) or other variations of more-or-less controlled luck.