Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by joshlemer on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:02AM (#13604797)

Although Patreon is nice, it seems to be more focused on artists and the like. A similar project focused on Open Source Software is Bounty Source Salt (https://salt.bountysource.com/)

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by yazaddaruvala on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:05AM (#13605616)

While I do agree, an unrelated philosophy question:

Is a piece of software not art? Are its creator/creators not artists, expressing their vision?

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by wolfgke on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:07AM (#13606337)

> Is a piece of software not art? Are its creator/creators not artists, expressing their vision?

Indeed this can happen (though not always - I, for example would not describe, say, some business applications as "art"). But nevertheless the markets for art and software are IMHO rather different, so I would be cautious when lumping these two markets together.

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