Open source is underrated for sure. I never would have found it if not for Bitcoin. A lot of traditional SWE jobs are for closed source, proprietary code. The industry doesn’t often contribute to FOSS, which means most devs don’t get exposure to it unless they go out of the way.
It’s unfortunate because I agree with you on it being the backdoor for moms and weekend warriors. If not for open source software I wouldn’t have the privilege of staying home with my kids 🥰
It think it depends on the SWE job or the sector, I remember right out of the gate even for commercial projects i'd be contributing straight back to open source b/c we were using the tooling. And a lot of google/meta engineers spend a huge chunk of their time working on open source. subversion ages ago and of course react and graphql all open source. Even JP Morgan had a super active fork of ethereum going for a while entirely open source on github, while jamie dimon was telling people he'd fire them for trading crypto 😂
so.... imo its really the circles you're exposed to, and its been this way for decades - so many opportunities in boston area too, can't even begin to count!
Omg I remember Quorum 💀 🤣 That’s awesome though, I knew about React and GraphQL (and of course Red Hat) but didn’t realize that there were more devs getting good exposure to FOSS though their job.
The companies I worked for before Bitcoin treated open source work as an inefficient, expensive, non revenue creating use of time. I used to have to take PTO (and pay for travel) to go to developer conferences, including open source ones 🥲
The open source world is massively abundant ✌️. Even the basic stuff like wordpress and woocommerce is a billion dollar industry. Its just not flashy news but lots of opportunities if you know where to look 😁
