Re: Klara Inc. Is looking for a FreeBSD OS Developer

On 2023-02-07, J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> wrote:
> Just so you are aware, Klara has has a commitment to feeding back to
> freebsd for a while now. It's commendable!
>
> Seen multiple commits to the source tree that mentions Klara. While
> I follow 12-STABLE at this time ive seen then multiple times before.

Hm, I'm not sure what to make of this Klara shop. They have some
articles online, but these play mostly on the surface, they're not
the in-depth stuff I am usually looking for.

Concerning feeding back - that has become difficult indeed. I am only
fixing bugs that I encounter, in everything I handle. And when I
manage to fix one, I try to hand that back to the people in charge.
And that is not always possible: with some public-domain software,
you are allowed to use it, modify it, and publish the modifications
 - but you need to sign a contract in order to be allowed to report
the bugfixes back to the maintainers (and you would need a lawyer
versed in international intellectual property law in order to even
understand such a contract - and that gets very expensive).

Concerning job offers, it's quite a crazy topic. Usually in a job
you do something you *don't* love to do, and you do it for the money.
But I *love* to hack The Berkeley (and I'm doing that for 25 years
now). On rare occasions when I actually had a job, I had to hack
something else, e.g. AIX (which is boring, because you don't get
the sources - but then, you can lookup their bugs in the Berkeley
source, and probably you find them there, fixed).

cheers,
PMc