Am Mittwoch 09 Juni 2010 schrieb Trifle Menot:
see that. What incentive does anyone have to volunteer their time for free, while Novell devs earn nice salaries and live the good life?
And your lack of understanding this question is the basic problem you have I'm afraid. People are not "volunteering" to do something they do not like to get an incentive - but people do something they like to do. And for some people this e.g. includes learning programming in working out a bug they have with dual boot. Or it's to learn packaging to get their favorite application spread to other people using openSUSE. Or it's to translate software into their native language, so they can be proud their mothers can use the computer too. There are so many ways to be satisfied with what you do for "free". The novell (and redhat and canonical) salary helps to get the jobs done that are hard to be proud of - that includes many, many jobs in the background and/or in the infrastructure. Of course you can have the same in having "software for openSUSE.org" hiring people doing the adminstrator and novell sponsoring that org, but that would be a lot more complicated to setup and maintain. And even then, Novell would pay developers to work on openSUSE as it currently does pay developers to work on the kernel - and these developers can still decide on their own (or Novell's) base what to work on. And then your argument that openSUSE isn't independent of Novell would still hold IMO - so the whole stunt was for nothing. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org