Hi Drew,
OK, now when I was speaking with folks, say from a Linux magazine or one
of the big money FOSS companies - they did not have this misconception,
but more often then not when I was speaking with 'just a guy (or gal)'
this was exactly what they thought.
1 OpenOffice.org = Sun Microsystems
2 Everyone who works on the project is paid staff.
Just passing it along, for whatever it's worth.
thanks for sharing! Indeed, this is a wrong perception. On the one hand,
it's frustrating to see people not recognizing you do things in your
free time, voluntary, unpaid, sometimes even having to cover own costs
for traveling and such. On the other hand, we can be proud of it,
because it means we do such a great job that people think we're a big
company. ;-)
The interesting thing is, that even talking to professionals or other
OSS projects, I sometimes have the impression people don't see that we
are "just" volunteers. Had an interesting discussion with a
representative from another large OSS project, who thought I was working
for some OSS company as daytime job, which enables me to work on OOo...
Florian
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