Looking for computer Co-op placement (warning this is a job seaker posting)

[Tom]

"Drew Hamilton" <awh-z32R3RYGf1M at public.gmane.org> wrote in message
news:20030925171718.GA29068%awh-ZwSoncw0E0atXF2fZOsJYA at public.gmane.org
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Tom wrote:
> > Not true.  In software development there are no jobs in Linux at all.
>
> After a while it shouldn't really matter much about the platform, or even
> about the language.  What will end up getting you and keeping you a job
> is software design and architecture skills, and really those are the
skills
> that are pretty much transferrable to any language.

That's only true for high-level jobs.

At my company, everybody considers themselves 802.11 developers, or NDIS
developers, or 802.11 firmware developers, etc.  To move to Linux would mean
hiring Linux experts.

Design and architecture aren't irrelevant here, but they are secondary to
technology.

Tom.

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