Craig White wrote:

>Apparently the issue comes down to his belief that there aren't any
>Linux programmers around. Imagine that!
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I am a Linux programmer, AND I'm free, as I've freshly graduated from 
ASU with a master's in Computer Science...  yesterday.  :-)  Sending 
resume off-list, PLUG has already seen it.

I graduated with my first degree in Computer Science in 1997 from UNLV.  
That means I was studying from 1992 to 1997, a range of dates that spans 
before and after the Great Internet Explosion.  If you read Eric Steven 
Raymond's "A Brief History of Hackerdom", 
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/hacker-history/hacker-history.html , you 
might understand how I and everyone on this list percieve the industry 
of computer programming.  My one-sentence spin on it is: from the 
perspective of programmers, Microsoft is an anomoly, not mainstream, to 
the industry.  A thorn in the side that we have to salve before we get 
real work done.  Yes, CNN and Wall Street says that they are 
mainstream.  Those reporters and brokers really know their computers, 
don't they?  Yes lots of schools offer MSCE's and lots of MSCE's are out 
there.  Those little private colleges are genuinely interested in the 
well-being and employability of  their students, aren't they? 

--Alexander