Hiring Is Broken?

Re:Hiring Is Broken? by watwut on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:07PM (#20848212)

Majority of OSS development is paid for. It is not done by unpaid volunteers feeding themselves by something else.

Some of it is like that, but not much.

As much as I like open source, there is a lot of myth making around it too.

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Second whether obvious or not, people argued that we meritocracy on these forums here for years. And some still do. At meritocracy peek, Github had even that meritocracy carpet or whatever it was.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken? by edflsafoiewq on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:36PM (#20848657)

I doubt that. The super-star projects with millions of users sure, but the majority of OSS is probably in the long tail of tiny one-man shows, Github projects with five stars, etc.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken? by watwut on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:48PM (#20848710)

The small one person projects with 5 stars have nothing to do with "operating in some sort of strict high score board fashion" or meritocratic evaluation of anything.

Anyway, FOSS makes yearly polls about these topics. It is biased toward more involved projects, but again I don't think someone's one weekend demo is what is talked about here.

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