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Sam Ramji: On the CodePlex Foundation and more

Sam Ramji: On the CodePlex Foundation and more

Posted Oct 19, 2009 13:51 UTC (Mon) by txwikinger (subscriber, #57821)
Parent article: Sam Ramji: On the CodePlex Foundation and more

"... it's impossible to hire engineers under 30 years old who have no open source experience;"

Well, I think it is very difficult to hire engineers over 40 years old that have no open source experience. Most engineers of this age would have had exposure to gcc, emacs, TeX and a lot of other GPL licensed software during their studies. I remember most papers being written in TeX during my first degree.


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Sam Ramji: On the CodePlex Foundation and more

Posted Oct 22, 2009 13:58 UTC (Thu) by johnflux (guest, #58833) [Link]

Just a quick point - Tex and Latex are not GPLed.

Sam Ramji: On the CodePlex Foundation and more

Posted Oct 30, 2009 7:55 UTC (Fri) by sanxiyn (guest, #44599) [Link]

I think he meant "contributing to open source", not "using open source".

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