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Here's a tip: never bet on something proprietary.

• jussij 13y ago
  Here's my 20+ years of experience working as a contract in Australia. In all that time I've only ever worked with proprietary tools and have never had trouble getting high paying contract work. I would say I've done very well betting on something proprietary.
  • hkarthik 13y ago
    Parent comment had to be qualified a bit: Never bet on anything proprietary which doesn't offer significant advantages over non-proprietary competitors.
    • nextw33k 13y ago
      Sliverlight would be a great example of that.
• roel_v 13y ago
  Yeah, like that article from yesterday about the Perl6 guys doubling down because in 18 months when Perl6 was done, the speaking/writing/consulting gravy train was coming...
• gaius 13y ago
  LOL. I know guys who have worked the last 20 years on Oracle, and they'll have no trouble finding work for 20 more. The same for Visual C++. Or a whole host of other things. The world isn't as simple as GNU ideology would have you believe.