Re:Why I quit my dream job at Ubisoft
by hinkley on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:22PM
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I quit a job to go work for a tool maker, because this sort of stuff matters to me.
What I didn't get (and possibly still don't) is that working for someone making tools, you make the tools they want to sell, not the tools you wanted to build. It was awful to be that close to a problem and be powerless to do much about it. That big sheet of plate glass became my home, with my nose permanently squished against it.
At this stage I'm pretty confident that this is why and when open source operates well. There is basically nobody to stop you from trying something out, except yourself.
What I didn't get (and possibly still don't) is that working for someone making tools, you make the tools they want to sell, not the tools you wanted to build. It was awful to be that close to a problem and be powerless to do much about it. That big sheet of plate glass became my home, with my nose permanently squished against it.
At this stage I'm pretty confident that this is why and when open source operates well. There is basically nobody to stop you from trying something out, except yourself.