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Day: do jobs; Night: Kill jobs [Article comment]
People should use their time off for the benefit of their families, maybe even do some reading and exploring outside the IT world. Can be fun.

Leave the programming on open source projects that can replace commercial software to those assigned (and paid) by management.

You may never know anyone who works on commercial software, but you can hurt them or you can restrain yourself. Restraint is better.

If you want to program as a hobby, do something that is useful but not enough to be saleable. Who knows, you might even end up having something you can sell. Then you'll be in commercial software, dreading an open source project that takes away your livelihood.

[No, I'm not threatened myself. But other people count.]
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 02/22/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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NO WONDER  Roger Ramjet | 02/22/05
Even a jackass needs a break  Squawkbox | 02/22/05
Talented Jackasses can refuse and resist long hours all they want.  GreatInca | 02/22/05
Talented Jackasses can refuse and resist long hours all they want.  GreatInca | 02/22/05
Why must examples be made of anyone?  Squawkbox | 02/22/05
Hear, Hear  Kerensky97 | 02/22/05
Been saying this for  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
I was a lease lizard once and what you say is so true  Squawkbox | 02/22/05
Emergencies, not constant state of emergency.  maxo_z | 02/22/05
Working 10-12 hour days means overstaffing???  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Day: do jobs; Night: kill jobs.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Who is threatened?  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
Be good to have specific numbers.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
whatever  JasonL31 | 02/22/05
How does this make any sense??  Mack DaNife | 02/22/05
Products for sale.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
I do not agree at all  Mack DaNife | 02/23/05
Consistency  Anton Philidor | 02/23/05
Re: Consistancy  Mack DaNife | 02/23/05
Grr. Understaffing- not overstaffing  maxo_z | 02/22/05
Day: do jobs; Night: Kill jobs [Article comment]  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
If I want to program I'll write what I want  voska | 02/22/05
Hope you write something you can sell...  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
But that would make it work and not fun  voska | 02/23/05
I Turned Down A Lot Of Jobs Like That....  itanalyst | 02/22/05
Me too, life's too short.  Kerensky97 | 02/22/05
Un the freedom of Open Source Software is much competition  GreatInca | 02/22/05
Donation or specific $ amount or salary  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Again...  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
Remember why the dot com companies tanked?  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
But of course even RMS approves of the selling of software  Michael Kelly | 02/22/05
Notice the loophole?  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
The Unix folks  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
The Unix folks...  Anton Philidor | 02/23/05
That's not what caused the crash  voska | 02/23/05
nope, developers not working 60+ hours  JasonL31 | 02/22/05

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