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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How can _I_ gain developer's status
Message-ID: <491@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 89 17:19:00 GMT
References: <1989Sep24.032535.6806@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <1989Sep24.032535.6806@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
|  I'm a u of M student in Computer Science, and I've written/am writing
|  several different programs (in a couple different areas).  My friend 
|  has info on becoming an Amiga developer, so I was wondering...is there
|  anyone out there who can tell me more about how _I_ can become a 
|  developer (ie. gain/buy 'developer's status').  Anyone?

  Good luck! Each company has their own idea on how to do this, but in
general they want people who have sold programs in the past. To give you
an idea of how strictly that is interpreted, one of our projects tried
to get an early release of a popular software product. Although the
software we were developing would have an initial release of 5000+
users, it was in-house and not sold, therefore we didn't qualify.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon