Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

[Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 27. September 2010, 12:30:04 schrieb Henne Vogelsang:
> Hi,
>
> On 9/26/10 11:09 AM, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
> > On 24/09/10 10:28, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > openSUSE is, like all Free Software communities, a meritocracy. You
> > > EARN the right to speak up (influence) by proving yourself valuable.
> >
> > I find your statement quite ironical. You haven't contributed to SuSE or
> > openSUSE in the past (at least not directly), now you are being *paid* to
> > work on Linux (openSUSE) the whole day, and you have been *appointed* the
> > community manager. You get the picture?
>
> I don't. He has contributed since he got hired right? That's the only
> thing that counts. Who cares if he get's payed, by whom, as long as he
> contributes right?
>
> Henne

You can't understand people get a sour taste here? We are trying to get people 
to contribute for 'free' to opensuse and overnight somebody gets hired who 
didn't have big ties before and becomes a key person in opensuse community.


Cheers,
Karsten
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