Re: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tony Guntharp <fusion94(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  This article primarily relates to Kernel development. The real issue
>  is that kernel development is in fact "hard". It's generally far more
>  difficult that anything you learn in school/university and most
>  developers don't get to the skill level required to work on the kernel
>  until they've been in the corporate workforce for years solving real
>  problems not theoretical ones. 
Well - and as is pointed out - the kernel wasn't this complicated back
when many of the developers were -in college- (or their early careers,
etc). If they were confronted then with what one is facing now as a
beginning kernel dev... it would be a whole different story.

There are also significantly more places to contribute now than 15+
years ago; people aren't as focused on "making my computer work" as
they are on "i want this XYZ application of mine to work."  I think
the problem is really that very few people think about how they could
further enhance how things work, fundamentally, when they're - for the
most part - generally happy with how things are working now.




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>  Tony Guntharp
>  Co-Founder SourceForge.net
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>  On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:13, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> > The *real* problem however is that young people hardly see any benefit in
> > becoming a develoiper. With universities that effectively are microsoft gold
> > resellers, with twitter, Facebook, Apple telling them that it still all is
> > AOL' 95, why should they care?
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Jan
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> > Subject: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers
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> >  Though this seems to be a very specific article, it is still valid, and
> > the most interesting is actually the replies its having.
> >
> >
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attract...
> >
> >  In case someone wants to check it out, I recommend it. And yes, this is
> > deeply related and a good source for Marketing people 8)
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