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Get KDE devs hired by big companies, spread word!
by Tray on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @13:03

I urge everyone who reads this to blog about Nokia hiring people with Qt/C++
experience.

http://www.nokia.com/A4126298
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2008/04/ctia-and-qt.html

The KDE community needs to get some if its own into powerful companies like Nokia so that they can hopefully help change the attitude of those companies to favor KDE and Free/Open Source Software.

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Re: Get KDE devs hired by big companies, spread word!
by anon on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @14:20

and how do you think the community can force companies to hire KDE people? A company should always hire only the best, and sorry but although the community might want to think with their ego, a lot of times there are much better options than those who work on KDE

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Re: Get KDE devs hired by big companies, spread wo
by AC on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @14:27

> there are much better options than those who work on KDE

Now isn't that a provocative thing to say on a KDE news site? Are you by any chance a sore loser from the "competition"?

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Re: Get KDE devs hired by big companies, spread wo
by Matt on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @16:22

Wow. Who said anything about forcing?

The point is, to spread the news among KDE friendly devs who would then apply for the job. If enough of them do, then there's a pretty good chance one of them will end up being the best match for the job and get hired.

> A company should always hire only the best

Ok, we agree there.

> a lot of times there are much better options than those who work on KDE

And there you go back to trolling... Or at least deliberately trying to piss people off. KDE is like any other large software project, it has many great developers and some marginal ones. I think the balance there is actually pretty favorable for KDE compared to many projects.

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Re: Get KDE devs hired by big companies, spread word!
by Riddle on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @17:21

> there are much better options than those who work on KDE
N probably needs experienced Qt developers. KDE has developed an entire DE based on Qt, so they obviously are amoung the best, if not ARE the best, at developing with Qt.

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lol
by anon67 on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @17:52

I can tell you aren't a KDE developer.

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