Hiring the Open Source Way | Linux Today

Hiring the Open Source Way

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 8, 2007

“In a business utopia, every employer would be able to
hand-raise employees, selecting those who showed early potential
and molding them to excel in a chosen skill set. HR departments
would become happy havens of retention and corporate trainers would
become den mothers fostering natural selection.

“Alas, we do not live in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
Employees are not decanted with a programmed set of skills, and
children are not conditioned to prefer one type of work over
another…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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