Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Unfortunately we have big cultural differences when it comes to use of the >> money. Some people [...] feel they are some sort of second class >> developers because they will never have that opportunity to earn money >> while doing Debian stuff. > > Hey, that's not really a cultural difference here. If you really > already know for sure some people won't never ever get paid, how could > they feel otherwise? > > And I'm curious, which "kind" of developer will never get paid?
For example, I'm a "kind" of developer who will never get paid: I have a day job that doesn't have anything to do with Debian, or even Linux or so. I am employed, not a freelancer. In the future, I won't even be able to read Debian mail at work. Therefore I will never be able to devote as much time to Debian as those who have the opportunity to integrate it into their work more or less. I don't feel bad about this, but it's a fact. And of course I will never be able to be paid by the project itself because of that, but that doesn't make me feel bad - neither about not being paid by the project nor about not being paid for computer work at all. So, personally I don't have any strong feelings against funding DDs, by whichever means. I have strong feelings, though, against dunc-tank and our current DPL's behavior in that field. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
