On 18 March 2012 22:04, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am a student who would be interested in doing GSOC next year. In >> reality it all comes down to getting paid though. Like someone >> mentioned, very little work gets done on "free will", so gsoc is a >> good approach. (especially implementing not so fun things nobody dares >> touch) > > that's one way of looking at it. another way of looking at it is that > the best jobs are the ones that you'd do anyway. and one could argue > these lucky people get the best job done. >
Agreed - people do tend to perform better when working on a project they are really invested in. But if that was true enough, wouldn't tons of people be stepping up to support plan9 development? If not, then obviously it's not worth anyone's time. Calvin
