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> Somehow I feel the project was held as a hostage, waiting for a ransom (which was paid eventually). This situation only happens when you hand the responsibil

> Somehow I feel the project was held as a hostage, waiting for a ransom (which was paid eventually). This situation only happens when you hand the responsibility of managing a critical domain to a single person, and you forget about it for ages. This is hardly a "hostage" situation, specially when the reason flagged is lack of support. I mean, this scenario only happens due to lack of support to begin with.

not_your_vase 2y ago
Well, that's definitely a valid point of view. But in my opinion if you want to earn money, then you should look for some sort of employment, and not be a volunteer in a project that's very famous about being built by volunteers, and demand to be paid (or else). If you don't want to be an unpaid volunteer anymore (which is a very fair thing to do), there are much more graceful ways to achieve that.
- homarp 2y ago
  in the comment of the article, he wrote 'Actually, I had added a sentence in my email signatures for almost a year: ``` -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/ https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment. ``` (e.g.: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZgifHQoTaDEiga0W@debian... https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZgifHQoTaDEiga0W@debian...>) ' does that qualify as 'looking for some sort of employment' ?
  - not_your_vase 2y ago
    > A: Hey man, how is it going? > B: Not good, have been without a job for over a year :( > A: Aww... what happened? Did recruiters stop using LinkedIn? Or you made your profile private? > B: Nah, I have no LinkedIn profile... > A: Gotcha, M$ is a pest. The how many CVs have you sent? > B: 0. I don't believe in that. > A: Then what did you do? Did you try to look for a job at all? > B: Of course! I put a new signature in my emails. And then I barely sent an email to anyone. > A: That's 1 sentence, with a dead link. > B: That's what I'm talking about, exactly. Even with the dead link, I still can't find any jobs... What do you say? Does that qualify as 'looking for some sort of employment'?
    - homarp 2y ago
      Sorry, I am missing context. Where does that come from?
      - not_your_vase 2y ago
        Are we not having the same conversation? You asked if putting a single sentence with a dead link in an email signature counts as job searching (putting that signature in emails by a person who barely sends emails, by his own admission). And my answer was "are you kidding me"? I hope this helps.
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- jon-wood 2y ago
  I don't think Linux has been primarily built by volunteers for decades, Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and a great many other companies employ people to work on it because it's a product that they sell.

not_your_vase 2y ago

Well, that's definitely a valid point of view. But in my opinion if you want to earn money, then you should look for some sort of employment, and not be a volunteer in a project that's very famous about being built by volunteers, and demand to be paid (or else). If you don't want to be an unpaid volunteer anymore (which is a very fair thing to do), there are much more graceful ways to achieve that.

homarp 2y ago
in the comment of the article, he wrote 'Actually, I had added a sentence in my email signatures for almost a year: ``` -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/ https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment. ``` (e.g.: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZgifHQoTaDEiga0W@debian... https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZgifHQoTaDEiga0W@debian...>) ' does that qualify as 'looking for some sort of employment' ?
- not_your_vase 2y ago
  > A: Hey man, how is it going? > B: Not good, have been without a job for over a year :( > A: Aww... what happened? Did recruiters stop using LinkedIn? Or you made your profile private? > B: Nah, I have no LinkedIn profile... > A: Gotcha, M$ is a pest. The how many CVs have you sent? > B: 0. I don't believe in that. > A: Then what did you do? Did you try to look for a job at all? > B: Of course! I put a new signature in my emails. And then I barely sent an email to anyone. > A: That's 1 sentence, with a dead link. > B: That's what I'm talking about, exactly. Even with the dead link, I still can't find any jobs... What do you say? Does that qualify as 'looking for some sort of employment'?
  - homarp 2y ago
    Sorry, I am missing context. Where does that come from?
    - not_your_vase 2y ago
      Are we not having the same conversation? You asked if putting a single sentence with a dead link in an email signature counts as job searching (putting that signature in emails by a person who barely sends emails, by his own admission). And my answer was "are you kidding me"? I hope this helps.
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jon-wood 2y ago
I don't think Linux has been primarily built by volunteers for decades, Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and a great many other companies employ people to work on it because it's a product that they sell.