What do you do for a living?

pvsage · 2012-08-24 17:55:55

@apm: I hate to tell you this, but most people don't get into free software development to earn money...

@Marianne: Go to Youtube, search "Moon Unit Zappa". Might want to do this on an empty stomach, because if you aren't prepared for what you'll hear, you may lose your lunch...and there's no real way to adequately describe what you'll hear.

mariannemarlow · 2012-08-24 17:59:03

^ Stop ordering me to search for stuff. You're not my mother. Are you?
Can I have some pocket money to but a sherbet dip dab ?

apm · 2012-08-24 18:12:52

pvsage wrote:

@apm: I hate to tell you this, but most people don't get into free software development to earn money...

but being an unemployed university U.G student i am in need of money

p120d16y · 2012-08-24 18:28:08

apm wrote:

thinking of selling my kfreebsd distro .

When you first said you were trying to sell "FreeBSD" I honestly thought you were joking.

apm · 2012-08-24 18:31:58

p120d16y wrote:

apm wrote:
thinking of selling my kfreebsd distro .
When you first said you were trying to sell "FreeBSD" I honestly thought you were joking.

no i am not selling freebsd
my distro is a debiankfreebsd crunchbang like openbox os with the same tweaks as crunchbang well to the level the packages and base kernel let's me that much tweaked

p120d16y · 2012-08-24 19:10:36

pvsage wrote:

@apm: Go to Youtube, search "Moon Unit Zappa".

Oh god. Valley Girl.

EDIT: It looks as if valspeak caught on though, girls still talk like that.

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KrunchTime · 2012-08-25 07:20:58

pvsage wrote:

Yup, this is how I describe myself as well. And money is the grease that keeps the machine running.

What did you do in your previous job?

pvsage · 2012-08-25 15:49:51

^ Same thing as now - packing freight out to shelves. At least that job was graveyard shift though - didn't have to deal with customers.

prasana · 2012-08-26 16:45:34

I'm 21, BE Computer science graduate, given an offer letter, then latter told that It's recession and joining deffered to next year. All my friends are at work or are pursuing their higher studies, with satisfaction in their mind. I'm here Unemployed!

bobobex · 2012-08-26 16:49:29

I'm a Civil Servant for my paid day job; open source enthusiast/LUG mistress/#! moderator is something I do for free in my own time.

Previous to being in the Civil Service, I was in the Royal Air Force as a Data Analyst.

VastOne · 2012-08-26 16:56:16

^ Wow, now I know whom to salute!

KrunchTime · 2012-08-28 09:20:00

bobobex wrote:

Previous to being in the Civil Service, I was in the Royal Air Force as a Data Analyst.

Officer or enlisted? Should our response to you in the future be: "Yes/no ma'am?"

bobobex · 2012-08-28 10:45:56

KrunchTime wrote:

bobobex wrote:
Previous to being in the Civil Service, I was in the Royal Air Force as a Data Analyst.
Officer or enlisted? Should our response to you in the future be: "Yes/no ma'am?"

LOL, I joined of my own accord as a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO). I reached the dizzy heights of Corporal, so there is no need to salute me just yet!

ThomasAdam · 2012-08-28 16:23:57

I'm a software engineer for Smoothwall, developing/designing software for things I am not legally allowed to tell you about.

-- Thomas Adam

mariannemarlow · 2012-08-28 16:34:38

^
If you did, you'd have to kill us?

ThomasAdam · 2012-08-28 17:52:39

mariannemarlow wrote:

^
If you did, you'd have to kill us?

Absolutely, I'd use a huge "-9" shaped thing to do it, for maximum rudeness.

-- Thomas Adam

mariannemarlow · 2012-08-28 17:56:07

ThomasAdam wrote:

Absolutely, I'd use a huge "-9" shaped thing to do it, for maximum rudeness.
-- Thomas Adam

A what?

Ragnarok · 2012-08-30 20:05:33

I'm currently an unemployed part time college student.

apm wrote:

no i am not selling freebsd
my distro is a debiankfreebsd crunchbang like openbox os with the same tweaks as crunchbang well to the level the packages and base kernel let's me that much tweaked

You do realize you're violating the licenses, right? I'm sure you can be fined/sued/punished for this, even if you live in India. You can't just repackage a distribution with your configurations and package selection and sell it

See pvsage's post below.

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pvsage · 2012-08-30 21:06:25

^ As I understand the license(s), provided all the licensing information is intact and all source code is freely available, it it perfectly legal to sell derivative works for profit. This would be covered by the 3th freedom as explained here.

apm · 2012-08-31 03:31:41

Ragnarok wrote:

I'm currently an unemployed part time college student.
apm wrote:
no i am not selling freebsd
my distro is a debiankfreebsd crunchbang like openbox os with the same tweaks as crunchbang well to the level the packages and base kernel let's me that much tweaked
You do realize you're violating the licenses, right? I'm sure you can be fined/sued/punished for this, even if you live in India. You can't just repackage a distribution with your configurations and package selection and sell it
See pvsage's post below.

where do you come from the microsoft lackey land , if you ever read " gpl 2 " you would understand how it is compleately legal to repakage tweak and sell free software for profit , and yes the license that the people who buy my distro on dvd get is also gpl 2.

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apm · 2012-08-31 11:09:38

mariannemarlow wrote:

ThomasAdam wrote:
Absolutely, I'd use a huge "-9" shaped thing to do it, for maximum rudeness.
-- Thomas Adam
A what?

i know what he is talking about he has just put the "-9" the wrong way , what he really means is something i can't say here without being banned , but i can give you a hint it was used as a reference for an act of silenceing someone in ancient rome .

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paolo · 2012-08-31 21:18:32

I am a watchmaker

apm · 2012-09-01 11:32:07

paolo wrote:

I am a watchmaker

digitals ?

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mariannemarlow · 2012-09-01 11:34:42

paolo wrote:

I am a watchmaker

My dad used to fix watches and clocks, just for friends. You just sparked a memory from Childhood of us always having a cuckoo clock or two on the wall in the living room and hearing them go off at night

Ragnarok · 2012-09-02 03:26:34

apm wrote:

Ragnarok wrote:
I'm currently an unemployed part time college student.
apm wrote:
no i am not selling freebsd
my distro is a debiankfreebsd crunchbang like openbox os with the same tweaks as crunchbang well to the level the packages and base kernel let's me that much tweaked
You do realize you're violating the licenses, right? I'm sure you can be fined/sued/punished for this, even if you live in India. You can't just repackage a distribution with your configurations and package selection and sell it
See pvsage's post below.
where do you come from the Microsoft lackey land , if you ever read " GPL 2 " you would understand how it is completely legal to repackage tweak and sell free software for profit , and yes the license that the people who buy my distro on DVD get is also GPL 2.

You still have to be careful about licenses. It's not like all software is licensed under the GPL.
You also have to be very careful about trademarks and making sure you provide the source for the distribution.

I'm sure there's more to watch out for, but I've never tried to publicly release any of my custom live builds, let alone sell them.

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