I hate the "it's all about tom" aspect of this mailing list at least, and probably much more, than my harshest critics on this list.
Yet I find there to be a moral imperative that drives my participation in them (see my recent "position paper" post). So: Matthieu: > I believe you if you say you're in a bad period, but you still have > many years to find another great thing you can do. If you die now, you > wont have a chance. > My advice is to find a job unrelated from computer science, and keep > your free time to hack. As a wise person once said: "If wishes and buts were candy and nuts we'd *all* have a bowl of granola." You assume that following your (sorry, but, rather obvious) advice is actually *possible*. That is certainly not true in general and seems, afaict, to not be true for me in particular. Here is my counter-advice to people 15 years younger than me, not horribly in debt, and active in the free software/open source techniques industry: Get out now. Hunker down, take a day job, go underground and plot a civilized revolution. The captains of this industry are insane and the free software community has come to be an exploited resource. RMS will tell you that I'm exaggerating while he's on his way to his next all-expenses-paid engagement. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
