Why Linux isn't attracting young developers

[Tony Guntharp]

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.

-t

Tony Guntharp
Co-Founder SourceForge.net
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:13, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo at redhat.com> 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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>
>  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-Attracting-Young-Developers
>
>  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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