7 Apr
2005
7 Apr
'05
8:31 p.m.
Hi James,
--- James Tabor <jimtabor(a)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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