Career Opportunities in the Open Source Industry

In our OSS Myth-Busting spree, we noticed that one of the chief misconception people have about open source software companies are all run by volunteers and there isn’t much of a cash flow over there. People believe that OSS developers are just passionate hobbyists and nothing more than that.

But the truth is somewhere far apart from there. Open Source companies are making money, perhaps not as much as the proprietary ones are in this infant stage, but its growing at a breakneck pace!
Here we list our some of the possible career options in the Open Source world –

Independent Developer

Some people are hired by open source companies, who work as freelancers working in their own time to complete projects. These people even get paid for this thing, on a per-project basis.

Employed Developer

Certain section of developers are employed by the open source companies. These people are full-time employees whose work is to integrate the spaghetti code that comes in from the independent developers and hobbyists around the world. Their job is also to check for bugs in code.

Service and Support Provider

Open source companies make most of their money selling support services to corporations. These employees work closely with the client companies to figure out customized support solutions for them.

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Open Source Licenses

Open source software is distributed under a license, just like regular proprietary software is. An open source license is a license with a difference: instead of keeping or expanding the software developer's rights over the product, it basically gives them away.
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Open Source in Web Development

Apache runs the internet. For that matter, it’s been running the internet ever since it’s been around. Apache has been termed the killer application for the Internet.
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Open Source Portals

The needs of the people can only understood by the people, and only the people can provide feasible solutions. However, the solutions need to be updated from time to time, or new ones need to be thought of. Also, there should be a common forum on which all the problems and solutions can be posted.
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Career Opportunities

Drawbacks

There is no doubt about the fact that open source has taken the world by storm. Open Source is spearheading the revolution to bring about a change in the world order, where the environment is free, conducive and constructive.
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