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

One of the founders of Klara Inc. is Allan Jude, who both served on the FreeBSD board and has written things like geli encryption for zfs as well as other zfs and core FreeBSD pieces. I'd love to work for them, but I don't think my current skill set is what they are looking for.

- Yancy

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On Thursday, February 9th, 2023 at 11:40, Peter <pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote:


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