On Aug 1, 9:40 am, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > It depends :-). In my experience I met employers being concerned by my > implication in the oss world :-).
I have the opposite experience. It was predominantly the fact that I was involved in several open source projects that got me into professional development 3 years ago. The employers in the market at the time required 2 years+ of commercial experience - the fact that I was involved in OSS helped on two counts, firstly that it showed that I actually have an interest in development (rather than being another Comp Sci graduate just after a wage), and secondly that I have experience in good development practice (the open source projects I worked on had better infrastructure in place than two of the three companies I've worked for since!) -- Ant... http://antroy.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list