Hi James,
--- James Tabor jimtabor@adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net wrote:
Paying developers? Hum?
I don't want to be the bad guy here, but this could push people away from the project. It would be like going back to five years ago when ROS had no GUI just a command console. Everyone will wait for five or so developers to fix things, and trust me it does happen that way in the real world. The back log will kick their asses.
See the other thread. I don't think paying developers as full time workers is a good idea. I think Contracts or bounties on certain projects are.
Now I have to ask, where does the money come from? If the ORG has no money, I guess it should produce a competing distribution CD. This could make M$ happy, so M$ would have a target to sue at. Also everyone on the board would become a target as well.
I was wrong in the other email. I forgot we have $25 in the general fund atm which was raised at LinuxWorld. I expect we can make quite a bit selling CDs, T-Shirts, Etc, if we want as well as just accepting donations. As for the fear of lawsuit, the idea behind the foundation was that it was better the foundation get sued and try to have some cash for legal defence rather than some poor developer in school. Everybody here knows the risk from Microsoft....
Thanks Steven
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