Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would YOU feel working hard for $0/mo while someone else gets paid > (perhaps) $6,000/mo for working on the same project?
Just fine thank you. When I do work as a free software volunteer, I do it because I enjoy it. I typically enjoy it no less if someone else is paid to work on the same project; I may even enjoy it _more_ if the resulting full-time attention makes the project better. Since a lot of very active free software projects have both paid and volunteer programmers, I would guess that many other people also have no problem with this issue. I don't think this is particularly surprising -- it's been shown than money is not the perfect motivator some people think it is; being a volunteer and being an employee simply have different tradeoffs (a volunteer has more freedom to do what he enjoys, when he wants; an employee gives up some of that freedom for income). Perhaps debian volunteers are more fragile than usual, I don't know. [I'm not saying the dunc-tank project is producing useful results; maybe it isn't...] -Miles -- `Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon said. `All the past could be forgiven.' [NYT] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
