On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, "Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS)" <slav.pidgorny@anz.com> wrote:
Linux professional should be on the upper side of the pay scale. That's what I like Linux for - feels like my youth (some assembly is required whatever you do), system administration is perceived to be more complex than that in Windows --> more money, and essentialy capitalist nature of major parties responsible for Linux - Linus Torvalds, Red Hat, IBM.
I've seen lots of debates in both directions about pay etc when comparing Linux and Windows. For each OS there are people who claim that companies should use it because staff are cheaper and people who claim that individuals should become proficient at using it because pay rates are higher. As there is a good deal of overlap between the environments and a fair number of people who get paid to work on both I expect that the rates even out a bit. If working with one OS paid significantly more overall then people who have skills in both would exclusively work on the one with the better pay. Also the "essentially capitalist" thing is something you can only believe if you are wilfully ignorant of everything relating to GNU, Debian, or even Linux itself - remember that Minix was always the somewhat commercial OS with source available. Linus could have extended Minix but he decided to make a non- commercial OS that was totally free, he doesn't talk about freedom as much as others like RMS and he is a multi-millionaire, but that wouldn't have happened if Linux was commercial. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/