Where do they tech Python officialy ?

[Alex Popescu]

aleax at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i25pjo.1mo5uqc1yxqsjkN%
aleax at mac.com:

> Alex Popescu <nospam.themindstorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>    ...
>> > and you will both learn a lot _and_ acquire "professional 
experience"
>> > that any enlightened employer will recognize as such.  
>> 
>> It depends :-). In my experience I met employers being concerned by 
my
>> implication in the oss world :-).
> 
> Considering that even the King of Proprietary Software, Microsoft, now
> happily hires major Open Source figures such as Jim Hugunin (MS was 
also
> a top-tier sponsor at the recent OSCON, with both managerial and 
senior
> technical employees giving keynotes and tech talks), it boggles the 
mind
> to think about which kind of company would instead be "concerned" by a
> candidate's OS experience.
> 
> 

Have you seen/heard of Jim lately? Cause I haven't. By the time he was 
the lead of the AspectJ team his charismatic presence was everywhere (at 
least around that project).
However I do agree with you. The only remark is that US trends are not 
hitting my part of Eu so quickly ;-) (things are indeed changing).

> These are the ones you don't wan't to work for anyway !-)

Well... this is sometimes debatable :-).

bests,
./alex
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