On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robert's experience is by far the most common - that you gradually get
>> into a work from home scenario when trust has been gained.
>
> Yup, that has been the case for me as well. I don't really see any
> alternative, there are only so many libraries that can to be written
> in isolation. Sun and Microsoft seems to be ok with telecommuting,
> Google not at all (though they just tend to open an office in the
> vicinity if the team is interesting enough i.e. the Chrome gang in
> Denmark and the Maps/Wave gang in Australia.

They also started an engineering team in Chicago so that they could
get one of the SVN developers to come work for them. They may have had
other interests in Chicago, but he was certainly a big reason for them
to create that team.

Paul

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