Re: Using money to fund real Debian work
On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:56, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which
> > projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not
> > be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these
> > projects would improve Debian more. Developers will tend to propose task
> > that are likely to be funded. The "sponsors" will have a large decision
> > power of what is done and rightly since they funding the development.
>
> In my opinion, this is exactly the same as:
>
> > This means that someone with a lot of time will be able to decide which
> > projects will be completed just by doing them. Other projects will not
> > be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these
> > projects would improve Debian more.
>
> Which is already both a typical strength and weakness of many free
> software projects: domination by people with time to have the last
> patch.
Daniel,
Does your employer know that money - or lack of money - doesn't influence
your decisions as to what you will work on or how hard you will work?
--Mike Bird
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