Alan Altmark wrote:
The rock/hard place is if you do s/w development as a hobby, not as a
business, and just want to have fun, recoup your costs, and have a little
something left over to supplement other sources of income. For those
folks the ante may be too high. But I just don't know; I've never been a
self-employed s/w developer.
And it strikes me as sad that IBM would exclude "hobbyists" like
myself. A lot of good things have come out of people who developed
stuff just for fun ...
Also, IBM excludes all those students who would want to write programs
on the mainframe or just learn how. They can get a Windows or Linux
laptop for about $1.5K with all the software they need. The only way
they can do anything with z/OS is to get an account on somebody's
mainframe ... which is nearly impossible at our institution.
They can get a Linux box and start experimenting and learning without
having to write up a project proposal and getting approval to get access
to a system.
--Stephen
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