Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

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On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 02:03 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> OK. So, you're not working for Fedora, you're contributing work to
> Fedora. Call it the way you want, it might soon prove difficult to
> find "work contributors".
> 
> People who contribute applications to Apple's iPhone receive 80¢ per
> download. If the application is downloaded 1,250,000 times, they make
> a million. A rare occurence, no doubt, but some developers probably
> make ~$50,000/year. Whatever the case may be, there's a certain rule
> that is clearly established. Either you play the game, or you don't
> but, depending on your capacities as a programmer, you may ambition to
> earn your life this way, right from the onset. Then, if company X
> wants to employ you, they'll have to pay accordingly.
> 
> Google is already playing this game and will play it more when their
> netbook with ChromeOS is introduced on the market. Soon, Intel/Nokia
> will join the bandwagon and even Shuttleworth, with his tiny billion,
> is also at it with Ubuntu One. 
> 
> This will give these companies an occasion to see how developers are
> appreciated in the real world. The developers' names will be more
> closely identified to the product than is presently the case in the
> free software world. (And all of this might eventually prove to work
> better with the BSD license than the GPL license, but that's another
> story.)
> 
> So with a system where the management is calling the shots  -- I'll
> pay you or I won't -- as presently is the case at Red Hat, the least
> you can say is that developers might not flood to the gates.
> 
> Developers' job is easy fairly easy to evaluate. You find or you don't
> find the button; you click it, it works or it doesn't. But what about
> management? How can developers evaluate management? When a software
> company such as Red Hat, has been in business for some time, there
> should be enough money to pay a fair amount to developers.
> 
> I'm not saying that RH is doing everything wrong but, how is this
> evaluated at the right now? Sometimes, management gets lazy and, if
> they can keep the money to themselves, why would they give developers
> their fair share? As I noted earlier, a certtain former CEO certainly
> didn't give the developers what they deserved. How can developers be
> confident that this is not still happening, though to a lesser degree?
> 
> Though Red Hat is doing fine now, I believe it would be better off
> questioning its development model before problems arise. By then, it's
> usually too late to fix them. That's not how business work.
----
There is no point to a having a discussion with someone that doesn't
understand what they are talking about.

Craig


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