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No YC, no Sequoia, no Andreessen Horowitz or other major VC, despite VC-backed companies often using OSS exclusively, and VCs being awash in cash and likely also being clued-in enough to actually realize just how much they rely on OSS: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Marc-Andreessen-The-Clock...

openbsd42on OpenBSD hackathons

It 'pads your resume' by showing a willingness to do unpaid work for for-profit corporations, which potential employers love.

Putnams don't count for much anyway; I guarantee you 99% of tech companies are still going to put you through the same demeaning interview process even if you have one, just because they can.

openbsd42on OpenBSD hackathons

Yep. OpenBSD practically invented the concept of a hackathon as a way of bringing together their distributed developer base to work together on OpenBSD in a convivial atmosphere.

Then entryist tech companies co-opted the concept to get programmers to work for free on their platforms, and in some cases to even pay money (in the form of an entry or registration fee) for the privilege of doing so.

Sure, they provide pizza and dangle some prizes in front of the participants, but the judging is seldom objective, and the winners are all too often connected in some way to the event sponsor.