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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:41:32 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:21:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >
> > > Should I post our embedded PPC kernel related work
> openings here?
> > 
> > NO!!!
> > 
> > This is a technical discussion group. Job offerings, 
> commercial  ads
> > and all this stuff is off topic here. Please re-read the
> list info at
> > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded resp.
> -dev
> > 
> > It  says:  "...discussions/patches   should   pertain   to  
> software
> > development  for the kernel core ppc32 embedded processor
> support and
> > any driver/chip/board support for ppc32 based embedded
> systems."
> > 
> > "Software development". This does not allow for job  offers,
>  ads  or
> > other crap.
> 
> I respectfully disagree. There may well be people who would
> rather 
> work on PowerPC Linux kernels more than any other thing in the
> world,
> and it is entirely appropriate for job openings for PowerPC
> Linux kernel
> programmers to be posted here.
> 
> Much as I would like to be, and not for lack of trying,
> indpendently
> wealthy off some dot-com IPO, so that I may code on whatever I
> wished, 
> I have, in fact, failed at this, and must stick to actual
> employment
> to feed, cloth and educate my family. I am not alone.
> 
> There is a long precedent for this in academic societies, and
> you will
> find job postings in Nature, Science, Physics Today and
> American
> Mathematical Monthly. Frankly, there simply are not so many
> job
> opporunities that we, much like engineers and scientists in
> general, 
> can afford to thumb our noses at them.
> 
> If you in fact are especially fortunate, then perhaps you
> could
> mentor someone younger: someone who is hot, smart, and fresh
> out of
> college, a good talent, who has contributed good patches, but
> is now 
> faced with the need to find rent and beer money. What advice
> can you
> give them, "tough luck Squidward, go work at the Krusty Krab?"
> 
> --linas/ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Maybe you should stand on a corner with a sign that says:
"Will code for food"...
> 


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