Hi, On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:17:33AM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > But don't you think an underpaid Doctor who work all day for healing a > serius desease for a 3th world country and only have 2 hours a day to > sit in his computer have the rigth to enjoy GNU/Debian as much as a 15 > year old boy who spend 10 hours a day investigating the system? Nobody has the "right" to demand any fruits of labour done by volunteers. > Don't you think these kind of persons are a user segment that debian > should enforce to please to. Debian cannot enforce anything other than its policies governing the acceptance of the contributions from its volunteers. It most certainly cannot force developers to spend their time catering for this user segment or any other. In short, it can deny contributions, but not force people to contribute anything in particular. > What social contribution are you talking about then? Are you making this > system just to please yourself? The social contribution consists of the fact people who are building a system because it pleases them, allow others to freely share in its benefits. So if you drop the "just", then yes. Debian is one of those wonderful cases where doing something for yourself and for others can concide. And then the distinction isn't that important anymore. However, if you expect a volunteer to work on something that doesn't please him or her, then by all means, try -- either as a volunteer yourself or as a manager for a group of them -- and find out how sustainable that is. It isn't. Would you really consider that a moral flaw on the part of the volunteer? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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