[so-called] Open Source: dangerous to computing education?

Posted Feb 17, 2010 18:51 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
In reply to: [so-called] Open Source: dangerous to computing education? by donbarry
Parent article: Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)

Meanwhile, I call on Guzdial to address the real exploitation of the commercial software sector. Norman Matloff's criticisms of the industry (Debunking the myth of a desperate software labor shortage, etc) would be a good start. Matloff's uncovering of the vast turnover in IT employees (with only 18% remaining in the field twenty years post graduation) is a dirty little secret so apparently embarrassing to the field that it is never even mentioned in polite CS company.

And what about the computer game business? Stories of huge staff turnover, hugely exploitative working environments, unpaid salaries, and strategic bankruptcies persist despite such things going on for decades. That's another male-dominated bastion of software development that presumably gets pushed off the edge of the spreadsheet when the proprietary software advocates want to make some point or other.