Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

[Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>]

Russ Allbery:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:
> 
>> My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most
>> difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one.
> 
> I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the
> most controversial is that, once Debian starts spending project money to
> pay people to do work that other people in the project are doing for free,
> the project is doing a form of picking winners and losers.  We're deciding
> as a project that some people's work is valuable enough to pay for and (by
> omission if nothing else) other people's work is not, and for all the good
> intentions that we have going in, there are so many ways for this to go
> poorly.
> 

A lot of people are already paid full-time to work on Debian. Wouldn't it be better to additionally have some other people be paid full-time to work on Debian under a democratic mandate (our voting system) rather than under corporate orders? At the very least, it would be a good social experiment to gain insight from - something like that hasn't not been done much in the world before.

X

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