This article primarily relates to Kernel development. The real issue is that kernel development is in fact "hard". It's generally far more difficult that anything you learn in school/university and most developers don't get to the skill level required to work on the kernel until they've been in the corporate workforce for years solving real problems not theoretical ones. -t Tony Guntharp Co-Founder SourceForge.net 1 (415) 694-3732 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:13, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The *real* problem however is that young people hardly see any benefit in > becoming a develoiper. With universities that effectively are microsoft gold > resellers, with twitter, Facebook, Apple telling them that it still all is > AOL' 95, why should they care? > > ;-) > > Jan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: marketing-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <marketing-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base > <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wed Apr 21 12:07:17 2010 > Subject: Why Linux isn't attracting young developers > > > Though this seems to be a very specific article, it is still valid, and > the most interesting is actually the replies its having. > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attracting-Young-Developers > > In case someone wants to check it out, I recommend it. And yes, this is > deeply related and a good source for Marketing people 8) > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
