Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Don't Contribute to Open Source" video.

  1. I put my opensource contributions in my resume at the top. Nothing. I questioned employers about it, including the ones who hired me. They said they never looked at it. Complete waste of time. I had one employer ask about my contributions to the Linux kernel, and when I said I had, he wanted me to show upstream pushes with my name on them. I told him that those contributions bore the company name I worked for, not MINE. Again, complete waste of time. So I am supposed to get the people I write code for to agree to put my name on everything. Ok. Still thinking about that, don't work on kernel drivers at the moment, so moot point. I guess the point here is if you are that much of a social climber that you run about trying to get credit for everything, consider a career in management, not programming. Another issue is that I program for FUN on my own time, on projects that are valuable to ME. Even if employers look at my code, they are not going to see an open source "I did an embedded program for an ARM bluetooth chip", IE, I don't have work examples online and it would bore me to make one. Even if I did it would be an artificial example that didn't really get implemented anywhere. I had exactly ONE example program like that, a disk drive diagnostic, an extensive one. I have programmed one of these several times, and I figured that if I did it on my own time, I could carry it from job to job instead of rewriting it every time. I put that up as a work example. I highly suspect that even if employers look at it, they go "ewwww, disk drives", and don't bother to look at it.
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