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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
