Mark Norton;148182 Wrote: > I did not contribute to SlimServer but own 50% of a software company and > I don't do anything for free. Nothing, and I charge on the basis of > value delivered, not time taken or costs incurred. >
You seem to think that all OS contributors are starving, unemployed programmers saving up pennies for the next pizza. We're not. I get paid very well for my day job (thankyou very much) as a software architect. In my (limited) spare time I've contributed code to a number of projects. Why? Because I want to. It's fun, it's a change from what I do at work, it exposes me to new technologies and new ways of solving problems, and it lets me interact with new people and communities. Most important of all by co-operating with others we get the software we actually want - which, as a technically literate consumer, usually just isn't available in the regular market. If kdf & co hadn't written Slimserver it simply wouldn't exist, and I (for one) would be a lot worse off trying to use TVersity or Twonky for our music serving. So my thanks go out to all of them. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
