On Dec 14, 12:19 pm, BerlinBrown <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you ever considered working with a larger company like Oracle/ > Sun, IBM or Google in some kind of research capacity and working on > Clojure full time there? For example, I believe the JRuby developers > worked for Sun at one point while they developed JRuby.
Those were certainly happier times for our industry. Then someone else's bubble burst (not our fault this time!) and things got tight again. Tom Enebo and I were hired by Sun in 2006, and we are very thankful to Sun for all their sponsorship during the years until we had to make our exit. It's a damn shame more companies aren't like Sun, willing to fund promising open-source projects for both the tangible and intangible benefits they may produce...but with a better strategy for helping those projects fund their bottom-lines. To be honest, I still feel like there's a company waiting to happen that specializes in JVM languages, the frameworks around them, and making the best use of available language and VM experts. You wouldn't need that many developers to form the technology core and there would be scads of support, consulting, and grant-driven research possibilities as a result. And that's not even mentioning that on the non-JVM side of the world, Microsoft *does* fund multiple languages, all in-house, all sharing resources. The Bazaar is definitely stronger in some areas, but collaboration across religious boundaries is not one of them. Unfortunately I think the whole world is still struggling to find the right way to make funding open-sourced products profitable in the long term, especially in lean times when people tragically take advantage of unrestricted common resources. The sad situation is that a massive number of companies derive tremendous benefits for free on the backs of open-source devs. I don't know how to fix it. - Charlie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
